YBhg Datuk Dr. Yatimah binti Sarjiman was appointed as a Member of Corporation (MOC) on 20 October 2023.

YBhg Datuk Dr. Yatimah has over 30 years of experience in the field of planning, formulating and implementing public policies on human resource management and organisation, financial resources management and organisation, financial resources, economy, administration and development of the region, social administration, international relations and foreign affairs. She also has expertise in rural development and management, international industrial structure, plantation industry and women empowerment. In her 34 years of service, she has held strategic positions including the Deputy Secretary General at Prime Minister’s Department and the Director General in the Department of Women Development.

 

YBhg Datuk Dr. Yatimah is currently the Deputy Secretary General (Sectoral) at the Ministry of Economy and extensively involved in the formulation of the 12th Malaysia Plan’s Mid-Term Review that was tabled at the Parliament recently. She also contributed to the National Energy Transformation Roadmap (NETR) that was launched in July 2023 as well as the National Energy Policy that was launched in 2022 with aspirations to become a low-carbon nation in 2040. In 2015, she was appointed as Deputy Secretary General in the Prime Minister’s Department and was later promoted as Director General, Department of Women Development in 2016. In 2018, she became the Director of Agriculture Division, Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister’s Department. Prior to this appointment, YBhg Datuk Dr. Yatimah was the Director of Agriculture Division and Deputy Director of Infrastructure and Utilities Division.

 

YBhg Datuk Dr. Yatimah holds a Bachelor of Business Accounting Information System from Idaho State University, U.S.A. and Master in Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from Northrop University, U.S.A. She then pursued her studies at University Utara Malaysia and has been awarded with Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD).