Sabar Mohd Hashim

Sabar Mohd Hashim

Sabar Mohd Hashim

Special Officer, Energy Section, Economic Planning Unit
Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia

Sabar Md Hashim, has served Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), the premier power utility of Malaysia, since 1987. He obtained his B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from George Washington University in 1987 and his MBA from Ohio University, USA in 1996.  Since 1998, through secondment, he has been fortunate to serve the Government in both energy and non-energy related work.  From 1998-2001, he was part of the Independent Grid System Operator task force team in Energy section, Economic Planning Unit, Prime Minister’s Department. Later, he was seconded successively to National Economic Action Council, (2003-2005), National Implementation Directorate (2005-2007) and later Malaysian Development Institute, (2007-2008) and Energy Section (since 2013), all in the Prime Minister’s Department.. During those stints, his focus areas have been in national energy planning, strategic research, economic monitoring (Far East, Middle-East etc.), policy-making, wealth-creation, and nation-building studies as well as preparing economic dossiers for the Ministers. He has also participated in international and domestic conferences in energy-related issues (especially nuclear energy), and contributed articles to international and domestic journals. In his leisure, he enjoys taking up interests in economics, nation-building, geopolitics, and civilisational dialogs among other things.