Nasharudin Mat Isa , Ph.D.
PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE WASATIYAH CENTRE FOR PEACE
Nasharudin Mat Isa, Ph.D. is the President and CEO of the Wasatiyah Centre for Peace, a Malaysia-based NGO advocating for regional and global peace-activism, with specific concentration on consultations, research and capacity-building training within its four key initiatives namely (i) countering and preventing violent-extremism, (ii) civic education, (iii) conflict resolution and reconciliation and (iv) fostering peaceful coexistence. A former two-term Member of the Malaysian Parliament, from 1999-2004 and 2008-2013, he is also a member of the National Deradicalization Panel, under the auspices of the Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs, in addition to being a 2017/2019 member of the Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).