Seri Utama nor Mohamed Yakcop

Mr. Seri Utama nor Mohamed Yakcop is on the Board of Directors at Khazanah Nasional Bhd.
Mr. Yakcop was appointed as Director of Khazanah Nasional on 12 November, 2002.
Previously, he was the Special Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister.
Apart from a short period in the private sector in the late 1990's, he was with Bank Negara Malaysia from 1968 to 2000.
During his service with Bank Negara Malaysia, he was responsible for the implementation of a number of major projects, including the implementation of Islamic banking in Malaysia, the setting-up of the bilateral payments mechanism between Bank Negara Malaysia and Central Banks of South-South countries and the setting-up of the Rating Agency Malaysia Berhad.
As Special Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister, he played a major role in a number of corporate restructuring exercises, including United Engineers (Malaysia) Berhad and MAS.
He was the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department.
Mr. Yakcop graduated from the University of Malaya with a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree and also from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium with an MBA (cum laude) degree.