Suhaimi Sulaiman

Suhaimi Sulaiman is one of Malaysia’s top media personalities with more than 32 years of experience as a producer, broadcast journalist, anchorman, media consultant and content strategist. He started his career in journalism in 1990, anchoring various news bulletins on TV3. Currently, he is the Director General of Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM). Before RTM, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Sarawak Media Group’s TVS and Chief Executive Officer/Editor-in-Chief of Astro AWANI. Suhaimi was awarded the MPI-PETRONAS Special Jury Award for Leadership in Journalism by the Malaysian Press Institute in April 2019. A multi-talented storyteller, he attended the CNN Journalism Fellowship Management Session at CNN’s Headquarters in Adanta, Georgia, USA, in September 2014 and is a CNN Journalism fellow.

He is also Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Research in Media & Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities. He was a corporate banker between 1987 and 1990 with Bank of Commerce Bhd (today the bank is known as CIMB) and received a degree in Business Administration from Portland State University, Oregon, USA (1984), and an MBA from City University, Bellevue, Washington, USA (1986).