Lya Rahman
Lya Rahman
Advisor to Institutional Investors Council Malaysia
Lya Rahman is currently the Adviser/Council Member of the Institutional Investors Council Malaysia (IIC) which was established in July 2015.
Prior to that, she spent 18 years with the Minority Shareholder Watchdog Group (MSWG). During her tenure with MSWG which commenced operations in 2001, she held the position of General Manager and oversaw the Analysts Team who undertook Corporate Monitoring activities which form MSWG’s core activity. She also attended general meetings of public listed companies as the Corporate Representative of MSWG during which she vocally raised pertinent issues of concern relating to corporate governance and the rights of minority shareholders.
Since 2012 until she left MSWG in March 2019, Lya was appointed the ASEAN CG Experts to represent Malaysia (other CG Experts hail from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam). She also headed the ASEAN CG Assessment for the Malaysian Public Listed Companies under the MSWG-Malaysia Corporate Governance Index Project since MSWG was appointed the Domestic Ranking Body for the ASEAN CG Assessment.
Lya Rahman is very passionate on Corporate Governance and shareholder activism matters and have written articles on the subject matter which were published in the StarBiz, The Edge Financial Daily and FocusMalaysia, to name a few prominent publications. She was frequently invited to speak and participate as panellists at several platforms – both locally and internationally – as well as to students from the institutions of higher learning.
Lya also headed engagements with Public Listed Companies on improving their Corporate Governance performance based on the assessment of the ASEAN CG Scorecard.
Elsewhere, she participated as the member of the Task Force to review the Statement on Internal Control – Guidance for Directors of Public Listed Companies which was organised by the Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia. She was also involved in the Technical Working Committee for Corporate Integrity System Malaysia (CISM) and had taken part in the roundtable discussions on the CISM Tools Development organised by the Malaysian Institute of Integrity. She also participated actively in the Network Meetings on Corporate Governance organised by the OECD State-Owned Enterprises.
For over 10 years prior to her joining MSWG, she had held various positions at the senior managerial level with various companies and organisations. Throughout her working career, she has been exposed to various organisations and businesses, diverse cultures and management styles. She also had the opportunity to work with people at all levels, which also includes the State and Federal Government Departments & Agencies as well as Regulatory Bodies
