April 2018PENANG PROFILEDato' Maimunah Mohd Sharif with the children of Mathare.
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Interview (January 3, 2018, Komtar) with Dato’ Maimunah Sharif, then-mayor of Penang and newly installed Executive Director of UN Habitat, based in NairobiOn December 22, 2017, the mayor of Penang, Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif, was appointed Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). She was only six months into her position as mayor. (She was sworn in on July 1, 2017).After George Town was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2008, she was given...
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is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.