Directorate and Appointment Dates

  • First appointment as INED on 6 May 2022
  • Redesignation to Chairman on 23 June 2022
  • Last re-election on 22 June 2022

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in History  and Social & Political Sciences from University of Cambridge
  • Masters in Public Administration from John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Tunku Ali is a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, a global private equity firm, sitting on the boards of several TPG portfolio companies, including Cardiac Vascular Sentral (Kuala Lumpur) Sdn Bhd, a specialist heart hospital, Pathology Asia Holdings Pte Ltd, a provider of diagnostic laboratory services in Southeast Asia and Columbia Asia Healthcare Sdn Bhd, a hospital group. He is also Chairman of International Medical University (IMU), Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) and XCL Education Malaysia. Separately, Tunku Ali is a Partner at Vynn Capital, an early stage venture capital firm.

Presently, he is Pro-Chancellor of both Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Marlborough College Malaysia, an International Council Member of Marlborough College, United Kingdom and an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple, UK.

Tunku Ali is a Founding Trustee and Chairman of Teach for Malaysia (TFM Foundation), President of WWF-Malaysia, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Yayasan Munarah, Chairman of Cancer  Research Malaysia, and a Trustee of Amanah Warisan Negara (National Heritage Trust of Malaysia). He is also a Brigadier General and Commander of a Regiment in the Territorial Army of Malaysia.

Previously, Tunku Ali was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and Director of Investments at Khazanah Nasional Berhad.