Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman is tipped to be Sime Darby Bhd chairman, a post left vacant following the retirement of Tun Musa Hitam on November 8 last year.
Abdul Ghani’s appointment will be announced soon, sources said.
After Musa stepped down, the post of interim chairman of Malaysia’s oldest conglomerate was filled by former chief secretary to the government, Tan Sri Samsudin Osman.
Abdul Ghani was the Johor menteri besar for four terms, from March 1995.
In the recent 13th General Election, he lost to DAP’s Lim Kit Siang in the contest for the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat.
Abdul Ghani’s political career began in late 1984 when he was appointed senator.
He was later appointed deputy minister for energy, telecommunication and post (1987-1990), and deputy finance minister (1990-1993).
Before his appointment as menteri besar, Abdul Ghani was youth and sports minister (1993-1995).
A Colombo Plan scholar, he graduated with a Masters in Economics at the University of Queensland. He was also the dean of Universiti Malaya’s Economics Faculty from 1980 to 1984.
- Business Times
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