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Mr Dato' Ir Lee Yee Cheong, DPMP,
KMN, AO, F.A.Sc, FTSE.
President, World Federation
of Engineering Organisations
University of Adelaide Alumnus
 Academician
Dato' Ir Lee Yee Cheong, 65, studied in the University
of Adelaide, South Australia and graduated with the
degree of B.E. (Electrical) with first class honours
in 1961. He served with the National Electricity Board
Malaysia until 1980. He then joined Tenaga Ewbank Preece
(M) Sdn Bhd as a Director and then Managing Director.
He became a partner in the U.K. holding company, overseeing
the Asia Pacific region. He was a director of Ewbank
Preece companies in Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore,
Brunei, Indonesia and Thailand. Currently he is Advisor
to the Chairman of KTA Tenaga Sdn Bhd,
Academician Dato' Ir. Lee was the President,
the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM); President
of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organizations;
Secretary General, the Federation of Engineering Institutions
in South-east Asia and the Pacific, Chairman and Honorary
President of Commonwealth Engineers Council. Currently
he is the President-Elect of the World Federation of
Engineering Organizations (WFEO).
Academician Dato' Ir Lee is Vice-President
and Senior Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia;
Chairman of the Board of the ASEAN Council of Academies
of Science, Engineering and Technology; Member of the
Board of the Inter-Academy Council; and the Academic
Council of the World Economic Forum. He is Patron of
the Australia based International Young Professionals
Foundation.
He is an Honorary Fellow of IEM; the Institution
of Electrical Engineers, UK; the Institution of Civil
Engineers, UK; the Institution of Engineers, Australia
and the Institution of Engineers, Mauritius.
He is a Foreign Fellow of the Australian
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and
a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the
University of Adelaide. He is a Director of the Malaysia
Australia Foundation. He proposed and organized the
Malaysian Australian University Alumni Convention Kuala
Lumpur 1996, the forerunner of AUIAC.
Academician Dato' Ir. Lee was conferred the Malaysian
Awards of DPMP and KMN; and the Order of Australia (AO).
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