Curriculum Vitae for Datuk Thomas George
Chairman of the Board of PSDC

Datuk Thomas George serves as Chairman of the Board of PSDC since 24th August 2009. He was appointed the Secretary General of the Ministry of Works in April 2009, prior to which he was the Secretary General of the Ministry of Human Resources from 2006.

He has also served as the Director of Research and Planning at the Public Service Department from 2001 to 2004, and prior to that, at the National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN) as the Senior Project Coordinator for the Management Development & Quality Programme, the Training & Multimedia Development Programme, and the Supervisory Management Programme. Earlier on in his career Datuk Thomas had also held the Assistant Director position at the Socio-Economic Research Unit and at the Malaysian Centre for Development Studies of the Prime Minister’s Department.

Datuk Thomas George holds a Master in Public Administration (MPA) from George Washington University, USA, a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University Malaya and a Diploma in Public Administration from INTAN, Malaysia. He has extensive experience in the area of training and development having served as a Consultant for the Management Training & Service Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat (UK) to Jamaica, Cameroon, St. Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Samoa, Maldives and Jamaica.