PUAN RAHIMAH BINTI YEOP

CERTIFIED TRAINER
35 years of experience behind her. Before this, Puan Rahimah was a Senior Programme Coordinator at the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations (IDFR), Malaysia, coordinating the Economic and Public Diplomacy Programme at IDFR since January 1996. She conducts workshops and lectures in areas of negotiations, communication skills, liaison duties, cross-cultural communication, protocol, social and dining etiquette, personal grooming and media skills. In that 35 years in the Malaysian Government, she served in the Prime Minister’s department, Consulate of Malaysia in Sydney Australia; IDFR and the National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN). Other than government departments, she has also facilitated courses for the private sector, banks, universities, schools, NGOs and overseas – Brunei, Myanmar, Tanzania and India. Before joining the Malaysian civil service, she was a journalist with The New Straits Times. Puan Rahimah attained her Diploma in Mass Communication majoring in Journalism from UITM and an M.A. in Journalism and International Affairs from Ohio University, USA. She also has a Diploma in Public Administration from INTAN, attended a course on “Train the Trainer” under the auspices of the Commonwealth Secretariat and Effective Presentation Skills from Peter Rogen Malaysia. Puan Rahimah also attended a Seminar on Negotiations in Singapore - jointly organized by the University of Singapore, Harvard Negotiation Project and CMI Claris and also a Negotiation Workshop under the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at the Harvard Law School in June 2002. ​She is also a certified trainer : HRDF - Human Resource Development Fund / PSMB - Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad and prestigious City & Guilds facilitator.