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Zeti Akhtar Aziz

Governor of Bank of Malaysia

In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name. The name Aziz is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by their given name, Zeti Akhtar. The word "bin" or "binti"/"binte" means 'son of' or 'daughter of', respectively.

Ungku Zeti Akhtar binti Ungku Abdul Aziz (born 27 August 1947) was the 7th Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, Malaysia's central bank. She served as Governor from 2000 to 2016, and was the first woman in the position and at 16 years, the longest to hold the position. Zeti was one of the members of the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) in Mahathir's second administration, a special advisory council advising the government on economic and financial matters during this transitional period.[1]

Early life

Zeti Akhtar Aziz was born in Johor Bahru, Johor on 26 August 1947; to father Ungku Aziz, who is of Malay, Circassian[2][3] and English[4] descent, and mother Sharifah Azah Mohamed Alsagoff, who was of HadhramiArab and Malay descent.[5]&

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Zeti Akhtar Aziz

Zeti Aziz served as Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia from May 2000 to April 2016. She had an important role in managing the resolution of the financial system in 1998 during the Asian financial crisis and the consequent strong recovery of the Malaysian economy. She was also instrumental in transforming Malaysia’s financial system, including overseeing the enactment of twelve new pieces of legislation for the financial sector. During this period, the Malaysian financial system also underwent a period of progressive liberalisation.

In Asia, Zeti was active in strengthening cooperation and regional financial integration. In 2006, she chaired the regional task force that prepared the report for the future direction of central bank financial cooperation in the East Asian region. At the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), she was the chair of the BIS Central Bank Governance Group. In the region she was a founding member of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Asian Consultative Council, and was the first Co-chair of the Financial Stability Board Regional

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Center Of Malaysian Banking: Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz G74 GR78

News stories about Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz, governor of Malaysia’s central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, inevitably make reference to her reputation as a paragon of steady, intellectual calm.

And with good reason: Faced with a formidable baptism by fire as the newly appointed acting governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, at the height of the Asian financial crisis in 1998, she successfully introduced and implemented an exchange control strategy that restored stability. She then created a master plan for the financial sector—a strategy that included consolidating the banking system while rapidly expanding the Islamic financial sector.

“Cool, intellectual, and respected for toughness as a regulator, her contribution has been both on the international and local front,” said a Euromoney profile about Zeti, a Wharton PhD who authored a pioneering dissertation on capital flows and their implications for policy. In 2005 Euromoney named Zeti Central Bank Governor of the Year for her pivotal role in reforming the exchange ra

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