Technical and Vocational Education and Training Planning Malaysia’s Path to the Global Frontier

Rajah Rasiah is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Asia-Europe Institute (Universiti Malaya). He obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in 1992. He was awarded the Celso Furtado Prize in 2015 for advancing the frontiers of social science (economics) thought by the World Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Professorship in Economics in 2018 by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, and the Merdeka Prize by the Merdeka Prize Committee in 2018. He has published extensively on industrial policy, innovations, and institutional topics.

Chin Shih Kay is a fast-track PhD candidate at Asia-Europe Institute (AEI), Universiti Malaya under the supervision of Distinguished Professor Dato’ Dr. Rajah Rasiah. Her research focuses on upgrading Malaysia’s TVET organisations to the frontier. She also completed an internship under KISMEC for a project aiming to develop a TVET Strategic Implementation Roadmap for Kedah. Beyond her academic work, Shih Kay is the founding president of the AEI Student Club, which she pioneered to foster student engagement, leadership, and academic collaboration.