Improving national fund manager’s future

THERE is great interest in how Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz will perform as the chairman of Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB). Any doubts from the public engagement perspective, however, were soon cast aside as the ease and confidence of her message was second nature for a person once named the world’s best central banker.

For all her experience and accolades, her role as the chairman of PNB marks a shift from being a career regulator to one who is now in charge of answering to a different set of stakeholders. Zeti spoke with a group of editors prior to her maiden press conference with the media and provided some written answers to further queries. The following are excerpts of what she said.