Lawyer turned academic


Prof Zaleha says women make up more than half of the academic workforce at IIUM.

PROF Datuk Seri Zaleha Kamaruddin became the first female rector of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in August 2011.

She has been interested in law since she was young and obtained her Bachelor of Law from Universiti Malaya in 1985.

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