PERDANA RO U NDTA B L E 2015
The Malay Leadership Mystique
On 10th September, 2015, about
thirty Malaysians from the public and
private sectors were invited to discuss
the issues and challenges of Malay Leadership based on a doctoral dissertation
“The Malay Leadership Mystique: Building A Background To A Psychoanalytic
Understanding Of Malay Leadership
Qualities In Politics And Business” completed by Dato’ Dr. Vaseehar Hassan bin
Abdul Razack. Dato Vaseehar successfully defended his thesis in September
2013 at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the
fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia and
Honorary President, Perdana Leadership Foundation, delivered the Keynote
Address at the Roundtable’s opening.
Also present were Professor Dr Manfred
Kets De Vries, Distinguished Professor
of Leadership Development and Organisational Change, INSEAD Europe
Campus; Dr Erik Van De Loo, Visiting
Clinical Professor of Leadership, INSEAD
Europe Campus; Dr Roger Lehman, Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and
Family Enterprise, INSEAD Singapore;
and Professor Emeritus Dr Vamik Djemal
Volkan, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia.
Dato Vaseehar explained that he
analysed Malay leadership from the followi