Tan Sri Dr Ahmad Tajuddin Ali was appointed to our Board on 15 September 2008 as a Nominee Director of UEM Group Berhad. He was appointed as the Chairman of UEM Group Berhad on 1 April 2007. He was previously the Director-General of SIRIM, the Chairman and Chief Executive of Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Chairman of Zelan Berhad, Tricubes Berhad, Opus, Opus International Limited and Sime Engineering Services Berhad.

He is currently the Chairman of Malaysian Oxygen Berhad and also sits on the boards of Sime Darby Berhad, Bangi Golf Berhad and a few other private limited companies. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia, a Foundation Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia.

He is the Chairman of the Malaysian Standards and Accreditation Council, a member of the Governing Council of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), Geneva. He holds a B.Sc (Engineering) First Class Honours from King's College, University of London in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1977. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Programme and was conferred the Doctor of Science from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2000 and the Honorary Doctor of Engineering Degree by Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) in 2008. In 2009, he was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Science Degree by Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and received the Prominent Player Award from the Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB).