Tuan Haji Kamari Zaman Juhari

Chairman

Tuan Haji Kamari Zaman Juhari is the Director of Development Financial and Enterprise Department at Bank Negara Malaysia. He joined the Bank Negara Malaysia in 1982 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Resource Economics from University Putra Malaysia and was later gaining his Mason Fellowship upon graduation in Master on Public Administration from Harvard in 1990.

With more than 32 years of experience in the industry, he is proficient in bank regulation and specialised in SME financing access and financial inclusion whereby he actively provided strategic leadership and direction in the formulation of strategic policies to enhance access to financing for SMEs. Over the course of his career, he had also been nominated as a speaker for various programmes which includes AFI Global Policy Forum 2013, BNM-AFI Capacity Building Programme 2013, 10th IFSB Summit 2013, Seminar by World Savings Banks Institute 2013, Dialogue with SMEs and Business Organisations 2012, Global Sustainable Finance Conference 2011 among others. He currently sits on boards of directors in a few organisations such as Bank Simpanan Nasional, Permodalan BSN, KL Remit Exchange Sdn Bhd, and Coopbank Pertama Berhad.