Mohd Razif Abdul Kadir
Assistant Governor
Bank Negara Malaysia

Dato’ Mohd Razif Abdul Kadir is currently the Assistant Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia. The Assistant Governor’s current responsibilities include covering the regulation and development of conventional banking, insurance, development financial institutions and Islamic Banking and Takaful. He is also responsible for the internal risk management of Bank Negara Malaysia. As Assistant Governor, Mr. Abdul Kadir also sits on the BNM Management Committee, which is chaired by the Governor. The Management Committee is responsible for formulating major policies of the bank. Mr. Abdul Kadir is also a member of the Investment Panel of the Employees Provident Fund, National Trust Fund, and Danaharta Oversight Committee, which is the asset management corporation set up by the government to address the banking system non-performing loans arising form the financial crises. He also sits on the Steering Committee of the Corporate Debt Restructuring Committee.

Previously, Mr. Abdul Kadir was the Director General of the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority (LOFSA). As Director General of LOFSA, he spearheaded the International Islamic Financial Market project. He also served as the Director of Bank Regulation Department at BNM during the Asian Financial Crisis. He was significantly involved in formulating comprehensive action plans to ensure the continued resilience of the banking system, which was vital to speed upt he recovery process. Among the important initiatives implemented by BNM was the setting up of the Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad (asset management corporation), the Danamodal Nasional Berhad (the bank recapitalization agency) and the Corporate Debt Restructuring Committee.

Mr. Abdul Kadir holds a Master of Business Administration from Syracuse University in New York and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.