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Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz is the daughter of the first Malaysian vice-chancellor of Universiti Malaya and professor of Economics. He got his doctorate in Economics from Japan.

She was also an Economics student of the then-Faculty of Economics and Administration between 1967-70. Her lecturers included former minister Rafidah Aziz and Dr Paul Chan of HELP University; both of whom taught us basic economics subjects. Her husband was also a classmate of hers.

We were all taught the well-known thesis of Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz Ungku Abdul Hamid’s research findings, i.e. that the middlemen, usually Chinese in rural Malaysia, were an unproductive or an unnecessary additional cost with inadequate value added for the services rendered. His big theory was about how to address issues of poverty especially in the rural countryside of Malaysia. He is well-regarded and well-acknowledged.

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