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PROFILE:
BOARDOFDIRECTORS
Wong Seng Foo
was appointed as a Director of EXIM
Bank in October 2012. He also holds the post of Senior
Director of Economic and Trade Relations Division of
the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI),
a position he has held since 2009.
Since joining MITI in 1983, Wong Seng Foo has served
in many capacities, whilst specialising in issues related
to Malaysia’s participation in intra-ASEAN economic
cooperation. He started out as Assistant Director
attached to the ASEAN Economic Cooperation Unit
of the International Trade Division where he was
responsible for ASEAN regional trade initiatives and
programmes, including the coordination of Malaysia’s
participation in the ASEAN Dialogue Partners relating
to trade and economic issues.
Between 1989 and 1991, he was attached to the
Industrial Development Division of MITI where
he oversaw regional investment and industrial
coordination programmes in the context of ASEAN.
His scope of work also included bilateral trade
investment promotion policy relating to Investment
Guarantee Agreements and industrial cooperation
programmes within the EC and UN bodies. In 1992,
as Principal Assistant Director of Multilateral Trade
Relations Division, he oversaw WTO/GATT affairs and
multilateral trade relations in the context of UN and
other international bodies.
In 2001, he served as Minister-Counselor (Economic)
attached to the Embassy of Malaysia in Washington
D.C., U.S.A. for 5 years, before returning to Malaysia
to assume the position of Director of Investment and
Industrial Strategy (2006-2007) and Senior Director of
Trade Policy and Negotiations (2007-2009).
Wong Seng Foo holds a Master of Business
Administration (MBA) from Henley Management
College/Brunel University, United Kingdom. He is
also a graduate from University of Malaya and holds
a Diploma in Marketing from Chartered Institute,
Marketing (UK).
Wong Seng Foo
Director
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EXIM Bank Annual Report 2013