One of Queen’s most distinguished graduates, Datuk Rafiah Salim, will return to the campus this week to give the annual Malaysia Lecture at the University.
(Media-Newswire.com) - One of Queen’s most distinguished graduates, Datuk Rafiah Salim, will return to the campus this week to give the annual Malaysia Lecture at the University.
Director of the NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women, Malaysia, an organisation working with women in politics, education and health, Datuk Rafiah Salim has held senior national and international positions in academia, banking and human resources.
She is a former Assistant Secretary General for Human Resource Management for the United Nations, the highest post ever held by a Malaysian in the UN, and served as the first female Vice-Chancellor in Malaysia at the University of Malaya. She has also been President of the Malayan Commercial Banks’ Association, and Vice-Chairman of the Malaysian Employers Federation.
Datuk Rafiah Salim will focus on the unique feature of Malaysian laws that govern the position of women in her address, ‘The Conflict between Religion and Gender – the Malaysian Legislative Experience”.
Professor James McElnay, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Postgraduates at Queen’s. said: “Malaysia is one of south-east Asia’s most vibrant economies, with a population of over 27 million people. Over 1,500 Queen’s graduates have made, and continue to make, a major contribution to Malaysian society - in business, in government and in the professions.
“The Malaysia Lecture Series at Queen’s brings internationally renowned scholars from to Belfast to develop further the business, academic and research links between Northern Ireland and Malaysia:
“Malaysian students have been coming to Queen’s for over 60 years and there are more Queen’s alumni in Malaysia than in any other country in the world, apart from the UK and Ireland. Queen’s also has close research links with several leading universities in Malaysia; for example, with the University of Malaya in areas such as public health and with the Universiti Teknologi Petronas in the field of green chemistry. It’s that sense of tradition and these research links that we seek to celebrate in the Malaysia Lecture Series,”
Datuk Rafiah holds three degrees from Queen’s. In 1971, she graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree ( LLB ), followed three years later by a Masters of Law degree ( LLM ). In 2006, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the University in recognition of her services to the University’s alumni relations programme.
Open to the public, the annual Malaysia Lecture will take place at 2.30pm on Friday 11 June, in the Peter Froggatt Centre at Queen’s. Admission is free.
Datuk Rafiah is in Belfast with a group from the Queen’s University Alumni Association Malaysia ( QUAAM ). After the lecture, the QUAAM party will visit The McClay Library at Queen’s to open a Malaysia study space that the Association has supported.
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