Secretary-General, International Rubber Research and Development Board, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Datuk Dr Abdul Aziz b S A Kadir, the new Secretary General of the IRRDB, was formerly the Chairman of the Board, and was until 1999 Director General of the Malaysian Rubber Board. Datuk Aziz has a great interest in training for which the IRRDB is renowned. He is also extremely eager to establish new sources of funding to assist research & development activity on may of the key facing problems, such as breeding for disease resistance, which face the natural rubber industry.