Shanthi Kandiah

Was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 August 2017.

She holds a Masters in Law from King’s College London, a Bachelor of Law (Honours) Degree from University of London as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Competition Economics from King’s College London.

She founded Shanthi Kandiah Chambers (SK Chambers) in 2014, a boutique law firm providing niche legal and regulatory services in new, evolving and complex areas of law and regulation namely competition law, the full spectrum of telecommunications and multimedia laws, privacy and data protection matters, cybersecurity laws as well as capital market laws and exchange rules.

Ms. Shanthi began her career in Securities Commission Malaysia in 1993 where she was part of the pioneer team that oversaw seminal law reform initiatives towards modernising and strengthening the Malaysian capital market. She was intimately involved in the development of the Finance Committee Report on Corporate Governance and the first Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance in 2000. She has also co-authored Malaysia’s reports for the World Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Ms. Shanthi is currently a member of the Nomination Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee upon her appointment as the Board committee member on 1 January 2018.

She has no family relationship with any director or major shareholder of the Company nor has she any conflict of interest with the Company. She only attended one Board Meeting during the financial year following her appointment onto the Board on 1 August 2017.