Dato Dr. Aishah Bidin

Commissioner, Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM)

 

Professor Dato’ Dr Aishah Bidin is a Professor of Corporate and Insolvency Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Malaysia (UKM). She is also a Commissioner at the Malaysian Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) responsible for the portfolio on Business and Human Rights. Currently she is a Commission Member of the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) and the Executive Council Member of International Centre for Law and Legal Studies (I-CeLLs), Attorney General Chambers (AGC) of Malaysia. Professor Aishah also served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Malaysian Corporate Law Reform Committee (CLRC) (2007-2011) and member of the Review Committee of Bankruptcy and Corporate Insolvency Law of Malaysia, under the Insolvency Department, Prime Minister’s Department of Malaysia (2011).She was the former Dean of the Faculty of Law, National University of Malaysia (UKM)(2009- 2014), Deputy Dean (2001- 2006) and the former legal advisor of UKM Holdings ( 2009-2014), the corporate arm of UKM.

 

During her Phd programme in University of London in 1996, she was seconded to the law practices of Messrs Allen & Overy (Banking and Securities Department) and Messrs Travis, Smith and Braithwaite (Banking and Corporate Insolvency Unit), both of which were based in London. Her areas of specialization include company and corporate finance law, securities regulation, bankruptcy and insolvency law. Currently, her teaching and research areas include Energy Law. Professor Aishah is a Visiting Professor at the World University of Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Previously, she served as a visiting professor at the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and as an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Malaysian Studies in Monash Asia Institute, Australia (2007). She was also a visiting research fellow at University of New South Wales (2009-2011) and currently a member of the Australian Corporate Law Teachers Association (ACLTA) and INSOL Academics and INSOL Europe.