Dr. Muhammed Abdul Khalid

Session 2 : Silent Takeover
09.03.2020 | Monday | 11.30 am

Muhammed Abdul Khalid obtained his PhD from the Institut d’études Politiques de Paris, France, and holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Malaya and a bachelor’s degree of Science degree from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Dr Muhammed Abdul Khalid is currently the Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Prior to this appointment, he led the Council of Eminent Persons’ (CEP) secretariat. The Council was set up three days after the 2018 general election to advise the new Malaysian government on economic and financial issues. He has served as a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He has also served as the Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute, Head of Economics at the Securities Commission Malaysia, and as a senior analyst at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies. He was also a Senior Technical Advisor at the UNDP Malaysia. Muhammed is also known as the author of the bestselling book; Colours of Inequality that was published in 2013, which seeks to provide an alternative insight to the debate on inequality in Malaysia by looking at the distribution of wealth or assets instead of income.