Our Board Members

Datuk Amar Haji Abdul Hamed joined the Board of Sarawak Energy and was appointed Chairman of the Company on 27 June 2005. Datuk Haji Abdul Hamed holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Malaya (1971), studied Forestry at the Australian National University from 1974 to 1975, and has a Master’s degree in Forest Products Utilization from Oregon State University, USA.

He was awarded the titles of Panglima Gemilang Bintang Kenyalang on 11 September 1999 and Sarawak Entrepreneur of the Year 2004, and was a fi nalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia Award 2005. Datuk Haji Abdul Hamed is also Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, SESCO, Naim Holdings Berhad, Executive Chairman of Ta Ann Holdings Berhad, and Director of Sarawak Plantation Berhad, and sits on the boards of several other private limited companies.

Datuk Amar Haji Mohamad Morshidi bin Haji Abdul Ghani was appointed to the Board on 26 May 2010. He holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a Master of Science in Human Resource Administration from University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a Management Executive with PETRONAS from 1980 to 1988, and Director of Kuching North City Hall from 1988 to 1998.

He then held a number of senior positions in the Chief Minister’s Department before being appointed a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Development and Urbanisation in 2001. He was  Director of the State Planning Unit in the Chief Minister’s Department before being appointed Deputy State Secretary of Sarawak in 2006 and then State Secretary of Sarawak on 2 August 2009. He sits on the boards of a large number of organisations, including the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak, Sarawak Forestry Corporation and SESCO.

Dato’ Haji Idris bin Haji Buang joined the Board of Sarawak Energy on 24 June 2000. He is currently a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and the Audit Committee. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree with Honours from University of Buckingham, UK, and a degree of utter Barrister from the Lincoln’s Inn, London. He is the proprietor of Idris-Buang & Associates and was formerly the Chief Political Secretary to YAB Chief Minister of Sarawak, a position he held from August 2000 to August 2006.

He was appointed Senator of the Dewan Negara on 28 November 2005, and was reappointed for another term of three years on 29 November 2008. Senator Dato’ Haji Idris also sits on the board of Hock Seng Lee Berhad, Amanah Saham Sarawak Berhad and several other private limited companies, including some state government-linked companies.

Datuk Fong Joo Chung joined the Board of Sarawak Energy on 31 January 1996. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Law (LLB) (Hons) from the University of Bristol, UK and practised as an advocate until retiring in July 1992 when he was appointed as the State Attorney-General, Sarawak. He served as State Attorney-General, Sarawak until 31 December 2007, but he has been retained in an advisory capacity. Datuk Fong was awarded the Panglima Jasa Negara by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Malaysia in 1999 and Panglima Gemilang Bintang Kenyalang by the Yang di-Pertua Negeri, Sarawak in 1994.

He sits on the boards of several other subsidiaries of the Sarawak Energy Group besides holding directorships in Encorp Berhad, Bintulu Port Holdings Berhad, Sarawak Cable Berhad, Borneo Development Corporation (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd, Harwood Timber Sdn Bhd and Permodalan Assar Sdn Bhd.

Tan Sri Dato Sri Mohd Hassan bin Marican joined the Board of Sarawak Energy on 9 June 2010. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and Malaysian Institute of Certifi ed Public Accountants. He began his professional career in 1972 at Touche Ross & Co., London and subsequently became a Partner at Hanafi ah Raslan & Mohamad/Touche Ross & Co. in 1981.

He was appointed PETRONAS’s Senior Vice President of Finance in February 1989, its President and Chief Executive Officer from February 1995 to February 2010, and its Acting Chairman from July 2004 to February 2010. He currently sits on the boards of Regional Corridor Development Authority (RECODA), Sarawak, Lambert Energy Advisory Limited, Sembcorp Industries Limited and Singapore Power Limited.