TECHNOCRAT
CUM POLITICIAN
Datuk Ir. Hamim Samuri, Deputy Minister of
Ministry of International Trade and Industry
(MITI), a civil engineer by training, was
interviewed by Ingenieur Editor Dato’ Ir.
Fong Tian Yong at Beijing Hotel, China in
February 25, 2014. Here are the excerpts
from the interview.
First of all, on behalf on behalf
BEM, I wish to thank you for
the opportunity to interview YB
and a belated congratulation
for your appointment as
Deputy Minister of MITI.
Would you like to provide us a
short background of yourself
when you were working as an
engineer?
My technical training started
when I was granted a Johor
State Government scholarship to
study Civil Engineering at UTM.
After my graduation in 1979 with
a diploma, I was posted to JKR
Road Division. Later, I obtained
approval again from Johor
State Government to pursue
my Engineering degree course
at University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow UK and graduated with
a degree in Civil Engineering.
Upon
returning
to
Malaysia, I was posted to JKR
Muar District talking charge of
Building Division as an Executive
Engineer. The Building Division
is in charge of construction as
well as maintenance of most
Government buildings such as
schools, hospital and clinics,
telecommunication structures,
post
offices,
government
quarters and so on.
I consider myself lucky to
be trained in various fields of
engineering in JKR which is in
charge of roads, water works and
public buildings for Government
projects.
Moreover, I was
trained for project management
where scheduling, progress
Ir. Fong posing questions to MITI Deputy Minister,
Datuk Ir. Hamim Samuri
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SPOTLIGHT
Datuk Ir. Hamim Samuri