Women & Sport Committee
Chairperson: Dato’ Paduka Mumtaz Jaffar
Members:
- Brig. Gen. Dato’ Norhuda Ahmad (R)
- Datuk Seri Dr. Pulainthiran Vendasamy
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selina Khoo Phaik Lin
- Ms. Nurul Huda Abdullah
- Ms. Nik Zarah Nik Abdul Kadir
- Ms. Hazel Sian Keng Huay
The Committee shall be responsible for the following:
- To increase awareness on the issues concerning participation of women un sport;
- To encourage and support women in sports at every level regardless of age and competence;
- To study and propose means to encourage increase opportunities and facilities for participation of women in sport;
- To study and propose means to achieve the targets set by the IOC for women to be holding decision making positions in sports organizations, including the OCM;
- To conduct courses for women in sports administration, sports management and sports event implementation;
- To confirm items which require assistance and encouragement in order to increase the participation of women in sport;
- To prepare and formulate middle term and long strategies in order to increase the participation of women in sport.
Dato’ Sieh Kok Chi was born on the 8th of November 1938. After his retirement in 1991, as an Engineer in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia, Dato’ Sieh chose to continue his involvement, full time, in the field of sports, where his life-long passion was, especially in the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM).
Born on 21st March 1949, Y.A.M Tunku Tan Sri Imran is the second son of the late Tuanku Jaafar, an elected monarch of the Negeri Sembilan. Tunku Imran was educated in the UK at the King’s School, Canterbury and studied law at Nottingham University before being called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London in 1971 and qualifying as a Barrister at Law.