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OUR LEADERSHIP

PROFILE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS

DATUK JOHAN BIN ENCIK ADNAN ZAYLANI
MAHMOOD MERICAN BIN MOHAMAD ZAHID
Secretary General of Treasury, Bank Negara Malaysia’s
Ministry of Finance Representative
Section 6(4)(a) Retirement Fund Section 6(4)(b) Retirement Fund
Act 2007 Act 2007

Datuk Johan was appointed as KWAP’s Chairman of the Encik Adnan Zaylani was reappointed as a member of the
Board effective 27 February 2023. Board on 1 March 2021.

He is currently the Secretary General of Treasury, Ministry of Encik Adnan Zaylani is the Assistant Governor with
Finance. Prior to that, he was the Deputy Secretary General responsibility to oversee the financial markets and the
(Policy) at the Ministry of Finance since March 2022. investment sector. He started his career at Bank Negara
Malaysia as a foreign exchange trader and portfolio
Datuk Johan has served in the Government in various roles manager in 1994 and played key roles in managing the
such as the National Budget Director at the Ministry of international reserves, the National Trust Fund and several
Finance, Deputy Director General of the Economic Planning other public sector funds. He also oversaw financial market
Unit, and Chief Executive Officer of Talent Corporation operations and was involved in advising the government on
its cashflow management and debt strategy, participating
Malaysia. Before serving the Government in 2004, he had in its international Sukuk roadshows in 2015 and 2016.
worked for nine years in corporate finance and accounting He was appointed as the Assistant Governor for financial
roles in the private sector. markets, investment, foreign exchange administration and
currency management in 2016 before furthering his studies
Datuk Johan is a qualified Chartered Accountant of in 2017. Upon completion of this in 2018, he took over as
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales the Assistant Governor of the Development Sector until
(ICAEW) and graduated with an Economics Degree from 31 March 2022 and is currently again overseeing the
the University of Cambridge. financial markets and investment sector.

He is also a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy
Committee and Financial Stability Committee; and
Chairman of the Financial Market Committee, an industry-
central bank platform for the development of financial
markets.

Encik Adnan holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford,
Masters of Science (‘MSc’) in Global Market Economics,
London School of Economics and Bachelor of Sciences
(‘BSc’) in Economics, London School of Economics.