Rafizi thanks policy officers on his last day as Economy Minister
In a Facebook post on Friday (June 13), Rafizi said he went into his office to settle some work and pack his things.
He took the opportunity to name several people who worked on economic initiatives under his ministry.
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'They are the policy officers in my team whom I persuaded to leave their previous careers and serve in my office.
'From chilli to semiconductors, to the startup ecosystem, Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JSSEZ), National Energy Transition Roadmap (NETR), progressive wages and the 13th Malaysia Plan, they translated many of my ideas into action," he said.
Among those Rafizi named were:
Dr Azraai Bahari Nasruddin, a doctor of endocrinology who graduated from the University of Cambridge, with an additional degree in informatics from University College London. Dr Azraai served in the United Kingdom before returning to Malaysia in 2014.
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Benjamin Quek, a banking and finance graduate from Monash University with a Master's in Applied and Computational Mathematics, John Hopkins University. Quek was previously a fund manager.
James Chai, a law graduate from the University of Oxford, whose career spanned law and technology and is also an author.
Ismat Qayyum, a politics, philosophy and economy graduate from the London School of Economics (LSE), who was formerly in the banking sector.
Haqimi Zamri, who was previously in the social enterprise sector, and graduated in politics and international relations from the University of Nottingham.
'Now they will return to their respective fields. I wish to say thank you to them. I learned a lot from them, probably more than they learned from me," Rafizi wrote.
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