Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Magad - WDA

Curriculum Vitae
Dr AHMAD MAGAD
DBA (UK), MBA (UK), A Gdip MC (UK), Ing Grad (Germany),
FCPA (Australia), FCIM (UK), MSID, MSIM, MOSA
Group Managing Director, II-VI Singapore and China
President, Singapore Productivity Association
Ahmad Magad is Group Managing Director of II-VI IR Optics Manufacturing
Operations in Asia, with facilities in Singapore and Suzhou, China. Both are
subsidiaries of Nasdaq-Listed II-VI Incorporated. The company is specialised
in the manufacture of infrared materials, optical components and systems for
applications in the industrial, military and medical fields.
In January 1997 he was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Pasir Ris
Group Representation Constituency (GRC), and in March 2001 and again, in
May 2006, was re-elected as MP for the reconstituted Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC.
He has also served as Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee
(GPC) for Finance and Trade & Industry and the GPC for Manpower for 3
years each and as Deputy Chairman for the GPC for Education for 2 years. He
was also appointed Chairman of the Estimates Committee of Parliament) in
August 2008, a position he held until his retirement from politics in May 2011.
He was Deputy Chairman of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) for 10
years and has also has served as Board member of the Singapore Productivity
and Standards Board (SPRING Singapore), the Public Utilities Board, the
Energy Market Authority and more recently, the Accounting and Corporate
Regulatory Authority (ACRA). He is currently a council member of the
National Productivity and Continuing Education Council and also serves on the
Board of the Workforce Development Agency, which is concerned with
employability and continuing education of the Singapore workforce.
Ahmad Magad is also President of the Singapore Productivity Association - a
position he held since 1999. He also sits in the Councils of the Singapore
Institute of Directors and the Singapore Manufacturers Federation (as Vice-
President) and is also Advisor to the Singapore Institute of Management
Consultants. He also serves as Chairman of the Senate and the Academic
Advisory Committee of the Management Development Institute of Singapore
(MDIS), which conducts degree programs at under-graduate, post-graduate and
doctoral levels in collaboration with various accredited universities. He is also
a Council Member of the Asia Pacific Quality Organization.

As an alumni member of the Asian Institute of Management, he was awarded
the prestigious Alumni Achievement Award (Triple ‘A’ Award) in 2002 for
distinguished achievement in management education and recognition of his
contribution to society. He was also accorded the Achiever of the Year award
by the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2004.
Ahmad Magad obtained the Public Service Commission Scholarship in 1971
for a course of study in Germany leading to the Inginieur Grad (Graduate
Engineer) in Precision Engineering (Feinwerktechnik) with specialization in
Optics. He also holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from
Brunel University (UK), an MBA and an Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in
Management Consultancy from the Henley Business School (UK).
He is also a Fellow Member of CPA (Australia) and the Chartered Institute of
Marketing (UK).