Dr. Christina S. S. Ooi

Dr Christina Ooi is currently Chief Procurement Officer, FGV Holdings Berhad, responsible to spearhead the Group Procurement transformation and improvement plan including streamlining the internal processes and systems through change management. She brings with her decades of corporate management experience in various Asia Pacific regional senior positions, having successfully developed and implemented transformational strategies to successfully revamp procurement processes in the organisations she had served. She and her teams had won accolades and recognition from the procurement fraternity, both globally and in the Asia Pacific region. Previously, she served as Head, Group Procurement for a national airline company, and as SVP, Procurement Management for a Malaysian telecommunication company. She also spent 18.5 years at a global technology company in both local and Asia Pacific roles in its Integrated Supply Chain organization - sourcing, commodity/category management, global contracting, country management (Malaysia & Singapore), and South-East Asian regional procurement management. Dr Christina holds a Ph.D in Law from University of Malaya, Master of Laws and Master of Business Administration, and has two first degrees, in Law and in Communications. She is a certified Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and was an Asia Advisory Board Member of the International Institute for Advanced Purchasing and Supply. She is also a published author of her first book on talent management.