CURRICULUM VITAE
NASARUDDIN CHE
ABU
Nasaruddin Che Abu is currently the
General Manager of the Regulatory Division,
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia
Commission, a position he has held since 15
January 2002.
Nasaruddin, 52, started his career in the civil
service in 1973 as an officer in the Federal
Treasury, Ministry of Finance. During his 17
years there, he held various senior posts
mainly in its Procurement and Finance
Divisions.
In 1991, Nasaruddin was promoted and
transferred to the Ministry of Science,
Technology and the Environment as the
Director of Venture Capital, Technology
Park Malaysia.
In the following year, he was appointed as
the Minister Counselor (Economic Affairs) at
the Embassy of Malaysia to Belgium and the
European Union in Brussels, Belgium.
During his four-year tenure at the Embassy
(1992-1996), apart from economic reporting,
Nasaruddin was responsible for a variety of
administrative portfolios.
Upon his ret urn to Malaysia, he assumed
the post of Director-General of the Postal
Department at the Ministry of Energy,
Communications and Multimedia, a post he
held until 2000.
Apart from helping to develop the postal
industry in Malaysia, Nasaruddin led many
nation al delegations to various international
postal events. Among them were the World
Postal Congress, Beijing (1999) and the
Asia-Pacific Postal Conference (1996 and
1997) in the Philippines and Vietnam
respectively.
Additionally,
he
was
responsible
for
organising
the
Commonwealth Postal Conference (1998) in
Kuala Lumpur where he was also the
Chairman of the Conference. In 1998,
Nasaruddin was appointed as the Controller
of Certification Authority under the Digital
Signature Act 1997 and held the post until
2000.
Between 2000 and 2001, Nasaruddin once
again served with the Ministry of Science,
Technology and the Environment. He was
the Director of the Environment Division for
a year before being promoted to Deputy
Secretary -General (Policy) in 2001.
Nasaruddin holds a BA (Hons) in Economics
from Universiti Malaya and an MBA from the
International Institute for Management
Development, Switzerland.
He has also attended various management
programmes, both local and foreign, and
these include the Oxford Advanced
Management Programme at the University
of Oxford in October 2001.