Shahril takes charge of Khazanah

The choice of Malaysia's Employees Provident Fund as the next head of the country's sovereign wealth fund is intriguing for both institutions

When Khazanah, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth investment vehicle, set about looking for a new managing director, it faced a problem: half the senior figures in public policy with any experience in finance had already been ousted.

It settled upon one of the few public sector chief executives in Malaysia still standing with any credibility: Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan, CEO of the Employees Provident Fund.

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Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan 

Shahril was interviewed at length in Euromoney’s April edition, where he spoke about the fund’s ESG ambitions, and its attempts to bring Islamic finance into the institutional rather than just the retail mainstream.

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