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Honorary Distinguished Advisor
Professor Ulung (Distinguished) Datuk Dr. Shamsul A.B., FASc
Prof Shamsul A.B., BA, MA (Malaya), PhD (Monash, Australia), FASc, is a social anthropologist; to-date, he is one of the only five Distinguished Professors appointed by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia; recipient of the Academic Prize, Fukuoka Award, Japan in 2008, inducted as a Fellow, Academy Science in Malaysia in 2018; in January 2019 appointed as Chair, National Council of Professors, Malaysia (MPN), and in September 2019 was awarded the UNESCO CHAIR (Communications and Social Cohesion) @ UKM. He is the Founding Director, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), the National University of Malaysia (UKM). He is known as the architect of Malaysia’s National Unity Policy (2020), Blueprint for National Unity 2020, National Unity Action Plan 2021-2030 and its first-ever National Unity Index 2018 (IPNas 2018). A frequent social commentator on local and international mass media on politics, society and culture of Malaysia, also focusing empirically on Malay-speaking Malay World and Southeast Asia.
