Ir. Tengku Kahar was appointed as Vice President, Strategy and Special Projects Office in May 2022. Prior to joining NanoMalaysia, he was with the Ministry of Transport in the Strategic Planning and International Division, transferred after the dissolution of the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) in 2018. In SPAD, he held the position as the Head of Macro Policy and Contracting Unit, where he pioneered planning for large scale electric buses, under the Government’s Stage Bus Services Transformation Programme. Prior to SPAD, he headed a practice called TESED (Technology Enabling Services for Economic Development) in MSC Technology Centre Sdn. Bhd., once a subsidiary of MDEC (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation), and secured local and international projects related to digitisation and economic development linked with real estate. Previous work engagements include various portfolios in regulations (MDEC), construction (Projass Engineering Sdn. Bhd.) and maintenance (Petronas). Ir. Tengku Kahar is a Professional Engineer and a Project Management Professional.