Council

Dato’ Kathleen Chew is the Group Legal Adviser of YTL Corporation Berhad. She holds a LL.B (Hons) Degree from the University of Birmingham and is a member of the English Bar and the Malaysia Bar. Prior to joining YTL, she was a partner in the law firm of Abdul Aziz, Ong & Co in Kuala Lumpur.

Dato’ Kathleen is the Chairperson of Alpha Malaysia, a non-denominational Christian organization, and a board member the Malaysian Collective Impact Initiative Bhd. She also takes an active interest in education and sits on the board Global Education Leaders Malaysia, Dignity for Children Foundation, and is on the Board of Governors of the Assunta Secondary School and the Board of Trustees of the Benenden School Trust in the UK.

She is married to Dato’ Yeoh Seok Hong and has seven lovely children.

A graduate of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London and an MBA graduate from the London School of Business, Dr. Chong began her early career in the National Health Service, UK. Upon return to Malaysia, she joined Subang Jaya Medical Centre (now Ramsay Sime Darby HealthCare) as an Administrative Resident and then Director of the Division of Ancillary/Allied Health Services.

Dr Chong later became CEO for Sunway Medical Centre and Prince Court Medical Centre, and Executive Director at Beacon International Specialist Centre, with a short stint as Project Director with IMU. At the launch of Malaysia’s ‘National Economic Transformation Programme’ in 2010, she was appointed leader of the working ‘laboratory’ for the Healthcare National Key Economic Area and was subsequently appointed as the NKEA Industry Advisor to the then Minister of Health.

She now runs her own healthcare-focused management consultancy, and is a Board Member of AIA Bhd.

Dr Ong Hock Chye has over 30 years of broad-based international experience in governance, risk, and internal control at the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and Ernst & Young at senior levels. He holds a doctorate in auditing from the Universiti Sains Malaysia with professional certifications in auditing and accounting. Hock-Chye is a founding member of AuditWithoutWalls!, an online knowledge-sharing platform for auditors. He is also an advisory board member of the Continuous Auditing and Reporting Lab, Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, and an Audit and Oversight Committee member of the World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations agency in Geneva, Switzerland. Before retiring in September 2020, Hock-Chye was the Auditor General of the Asian Development Bank headquarters in the Philippines.

Ms. Ho Chee Kit is one of the founding partners of Iza, Ng, Yeoh & Kit, a law firm in Kuala Lumpur in which she is currently a consultant. She has been called to both the English Bar and Malaysian Bar and is experienced in corporate, banking, intellectual and industrial property laws and related matters. Ms. Ho currently serves as a legal advisor to a number of associations and is an Independent Non-Executive Director of VSTECS Bhd, a Bursa Main Board Company. Ms Ho is also a council member of Yayasan De La Salle.

Wai Yee has more than 25 years experience in brand building, integrated marketing communications and customer relationship management, and currently runs her own boutique creative agency, Smalltimer Sdn Bhd.

Her involvement with Hospis Malaysia started in 2014 when she led her team to develop a campaign to create greater awareness for palliative care through the introduction of the palliative care symbol. Wai Yee is a strong advocate for ensuring wider knowledge of palliative care and how it can benefit patients and their caregivers when professionally delivered with good clinical practices.

Professor Dr Ee Ming Khoo graduated from St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, UK, and is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. She is an Honorary Professor at the Department of Primary Care Medicine, University of Malaya and is a Fellow of the Academy of Family Physicians Malaysia and Academy of Medicine Malaysia.

Professor Khoo is an active researcher with research collaborations with the University of Edinburgh (RESPIRE), Clinical Research Centre Malaysia and the Institute of Health System Research Malaysia, amongst others. She holds numerous lead positions in groups with research interest in primary care and respiratory health such as President Elect for the International Primary Care Respiratory Group, partner Lead in the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE) and Academic Lead of the Asia-Pacific Academic Primary Care Group.

She has published more than 100 peer reviewed journal papers and books, and is a member of the working group in several national Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG). She is a member of the Editorial Board/Associate Editor for several journals.

She is also an External Examiner to numerous Family Medicine Postgraduate Professional examination bodies in Malaysia, Singapore and the Middle East.