39th Annual Meeting

Rinalia Abdul Rahim
 

RINALIA ABDUL RAHIM is executive director of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP), a multistakeholder partnership in ICT-facilitated development. She established the GKP secretariat in Kuala Lumpur on its transfer from the World Bank Institute in 2001. She is an ex-officio member of the GKP Executive Committee and serves as a member of the International Advisory Panel for the World Summit on the Information Society’s ICT4D Platform as well as UNDP’s Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP). In 2000, she was a leading organizer of the Second Global Knowledge Conference (GKII), hosted by the Government of Malaysia on behalf of GKP. In 1998, she was part of the Malaysian consulting team engaged by the Regional Bureau for the Arab States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to share Malaysia’s experience in developing a national ICT strategy and framework. She was content director for the 1st Virtual Commonwealth, a platform for discussing non-mainstream ideas about the information age. She began her career in 1997 as a policy technologist with the National Information Technology Council (NITC) of Malaysia, the primary advisor and consultant to the Malaysian Government on matters related to ICT for national development. At NITC she managed the Council’s governance agenda portfolio and represented the nation at many international meetings and conferences. She has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Princeton University, USA.