Datuk Dr. Anis Yusal Yusoff is currently Principal Fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the National
University of Malaysia (UKM), a position held since January 2009. Between 2015-2020 he was seconded to the
Prime Minister’s Department to lead three government agencies; 1) as Deputy Director General of the National
Centre for Governance, Integrity & Anti-Corruption (GIACC); 2) as Director General of the National Integrity and
Good Governance Department; and 3) as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysian Institute of
Integrity (INTEGRITI).
Datuk Dr Anis Yusal also spent more than ten years with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
between 1994-2005 including a stint with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Headquarters in Bonn, Germany
in 2001. He was the Assistant Resident Representative and Head of Programme responsible for Human
Development and Governance initiatives for UNDP Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam and was
Programme Specialist responsible for UNV in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Region.
Datuk Dr Anis Yusal has served as National Chairman of Political Financing Act Drafting Committee and as
member of Advisory Council to Formulate the National Anti-Corruption Plan. Other notable national advisory
councils served include as Chairman of National Consultative Council on Harmony, member of The Election
Reform Committee, member of The Investigation Committee for Governance, Government Procurement and
Financial Procedures, member of the Advisory Panel for The Consultation and Prevention of Corruption under
the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, member of the advisory panel for the National Consumers Council
and member of the advisory council for National Unity and Integration Training Institute. Datuk Dr Anis Yusal was
also Deputy Chairman of The Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC), appointed by the King between
2014-2018.
Recently, Datuk Dr. Anis Yusal was appointed as an Honorary Professor in the field of Information and Human
Sciences at Faculty of Business, Information and Human Sciences, Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur
(IUKL). He was also recently appointed as a Member of Programme Development Committee (PDC) at the
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Taylor’s University, Malaysia. He is currently serving as a Member of the
Advisory Board of Tan Sri Omar Centre for STI Policy Studies at UCSI University.
Datuk Dr. Anis Yusal studied at the Royal Military College (1980-1985), the Penang Free School (1985-1986),
Universiti Teknologi MARA (1987-1990), Syracuse University, New York (1991-1993)[M.Sc.] and the National
University of Malaysia (2009-2014)[Ph.D.]. He was an Adjunct Professor at University Malaya (from 2018 to
August 2020) and at Tun Hussein Onn University (UTHM) from 2018 to March 2020.
Datuk Dr. Anis Yusal has authored over 10 books, and edited more than 20 publications, besides writing many
policy papers and articles for journal and newspapers. He was on the editorial board of Journal of Governance
and Integrity of University Malaysia Pahang (2017-2019).
Some of his most recent book publications include “Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic and Governance in Malaysia:
With Lessons from the 1997 -1998 Asian Financial Crisis” (with Abdul Rahman Embong) [2022]; “Recentring
Governance, Integrity & Anti-Corruption in Malaysia: New Institution, New Policies and the Will to Change” (with
Abu Kassim Mohammed)[2020]; and “The Malaysian Governance Indicators: a Pioneering National Effort To
Measure Governance” (with Mohd Gunawan et al)[2020].
Datuk Dr. Anis Yusal actively speaks on issues related to people and development. He is also regularly invited by
the national and international media as an analyst of Malaysian sociopolitics to discuss areas related to integrity,
anti-corruption, money politics and ethnic relations.
Datuk Dr. Anis Yusal is married to Datin Shahdee bt. Dato’ Ahmad and they live in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.