Founders

The Late Tan Sri Dato’ NAPSIAH OMAR

PSM, DSNS

Education:

• Bachelor of Science, Australian National University, Canberra
• Master of Science, Cornell University, New York

Business and Occupation:

• Company Director
• Former Associate Professor, Universiti Putra Malaysia in 1981

Government Awards:

• Conferred a Dato by Negeri Sembilan State Government
• Conferred a Tan Sri by Federal Government

Government Positions Held:

• Former Deputy Minister of National Unity and Social Development, 1982-87
• Former Minister of Public Enterprise, 1987-90
• Former Minister of National Unity and Social Development, 1990-1995
• Former State Executive Councillor for Negeri Sembilan, 1996

Political Positions Held:

• UMNO State Woman Leader for Negeri Sembilan up till 2004
• Permanent Chairman of UMNO Wanita since 2004

NGO Positions:

• Co-Founder cum Chairperson, Women’s Institute of Management since 1993
• Former President, Federal Territory Girl Guides Association

Awards:

• Tokoh Wanita Negeri Sembilan, 2001
• National Outstanding Educator Award (College category), 2015

 

Dato Dr. Nellie was appointed a Justice of the Peace (J. P.) and conferred a Datoship (DSNS) and awarded the Pingat PMC and PJK by the Negeri Sembilan State Government and KMN by the Federal Government. Leadership positions she has held over the years in Malaysia include as:

• Co-Founder cum Chairman, Board of Trustees, Women’s Institute of Management, which owns a 6-storey building, Wisma WIM which h is free of encumbrances.
• President, N. S. Chinese Maternity Hospital, Seremban, where she raised about RM30 million for major renovations and purchase of new equipment, e.g. MRI, C. T. Scan, Mammogram, a new Ambulance, etc. A baby Grand Piano was donated for the hospital to provide music therapy for the patients. Today, this hospital is named the CMH Specialist Hospital.
• President, Royal Sungei Ujong Club, Seremban.
• President, YWCA of Seremban.
• Chairman, Malaysian Red Crescent Society, N. S., which owns 2 units of 3-storey buildings, which house the state office and an MRCS Training Academy.
• National President, YWCA of Malaysia.
• Chairman, Co-ordinating Committee of the Wesley Methodist Church, Seremban, Chinese Methodist Church, Seremban and Tamil Methodist Church, Seremban.
• National Vice Chairman, Malaysian Red Crescent Society.
• Founder cum Chairman, Pusat Haemodialysis Mawar, Seremban.

Leadership positions she has held over the years at international levels include as:

• Finance Chairman, and Executive Board Member, World YWCA, Geneva, when she conducted finance training workshops at Manila, Bangkok and Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Board Member, Women’s World Banking, New York, when she attended meetings and conferences in New York, London, Milan, Zurich, Rio de Janeiro, Fiji, etc.
• She is also a frequent Guest Speaker at conferences organised by the Global Summit of Women, Washington, D. C. at Dublin, London, Taipei, Taiwan, etc.

She speaks English, Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese and Hokkien.

In her service to various women’s organisations and NGOs, she has written various training manuals and two books of 432 pages each, in a pro bono capacity, to raise funds for the Women’s Institute of Management. She also authored a Finance Handbook for the Entrepreneur in English, which was later translated into Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin and Tamil due to a grant received from the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

She has travelled widely to 25 countries around the world. She has been invited to be Guest Speaker at various international conferences organised by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, the Asia-Australia Institute, the Asian Development Bank, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Governments of Western Australia and Fiji, the Edith Cowan University, Western Australia and the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, U. K.

She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA (Hon.)) by the University of East London and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the Cariboo University College, Canada, now known as Thompson Rivers University.

Her Motto in life is:

“Always strive to be one in a million, and not one of the million.”