An interview with DS Anwar Ibrahim is featured in the current issue of CFO Europe.
Anwar Ibrahim
by Janet Kesnar
Throughout much of the 1990s, Anwar Ibrahim was best known among Asia watchers as Malaysia’s heir-apparent to Mahathir Mohamad, the country’s long-standing prime minister who retired in 2003.
Anwar, however, fell from grace in 1998, five years after being appointed deputy prime minister, amidâ€â€what many believeâ€â€were trumped-up charges of corruption and sodomy. After serving six years in prison, he was freed in 2004. The sodomy charges were dropped, but the corruption charges remain, thereby preventing him from active politics until April 2008. During this period, Anwar, who turns 60 in August, continues to be a formidable presence on his country’s political scene as an adviser to the opposition People’s Justice Party, while dipping into academia and lecturing abroad at Oxford, Johns Hopkins and other universities as a voice of moderate Islam.
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