KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) director-general Datuk Dr Kamarul Baharain Basir has been appointed as the new secretary-general of the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) for a three-year period starting July 2011.
He will take charge after the tenure of the current ANRPC secretary-general Prof Dr Djoko Said Damardjati from Indonesia ends.
The decision to appoint Kamarul was made during the 33rd session of the ANRPC Assembly in Kochi, India early this month.
Kamarul was MRB director-general from January 2006 to February 2010. He joined the Rubber Research Institute Malaysia (now the MRB) in 1976 after graduating from the University of Strathclyde in mechanical engineering. In 1979 he pursued his post graduate study in the field of polymer engineering, and obtained his PhD in polymer processing from the Loughborough University of Technology in 1985.
A well-known rubber industry veteran having served MRB for about 30 years, Kamarul has authored over 60 technical papers and reports. With his expertise and experience in rubber engineering, he had also successfully led numerous research projects funded by the Government.
(biz.thestar.com)
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