Razib Dawood

Razib Dawood

Razib Dawood

Chief Executive Officer
Energy Commission Malaysia
Event(s): SIEW 2021

Razib graduated with a BTEC National Diploma in Engineering in 1991 from the Coventry Technical College followed by an Electrical Engineering Degree from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom in 1994. He was then awarded his Master of Science in Power Electronic Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1996.

Razib started his early career with Tenaga Nasional Berhad and has more than 20 years of professional experience, having worked for both Malaysian and Australian national power utilities, independent power producers, Transmission Network Service Provider (TNSP) and as a consultant for renewable energy. During his career highlights, he had held many roles such as a construction engineer, project manager, technical advisor, systems planning engineer and a power system study specialist.

From October 2012 to August 2017, he was the Head of Electricity Market Operations with the Energy Commission before assigned by the Prime Minister’s Department to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Malaysia Nuclear Power Corporation (MNPC) from 2017 to 2018. On 9 April 2018, Razib was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Energy Commission.

Razib was appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Commission effective 1 August 2019.