Radin Umar Radin Sohadi


Radin Umar bin Radin Sohadi is a Malaysian academic administrator. He was the first Director-General of Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research when the agency established in 2007. From 2008 to 2010, he was appointed as the second Director-General of Higher Education, succeed Hassan Said. Then, he served as the 6th Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Putra Malaysia from 1 January 2011 until 31 December 2012. He resigned from the office due to health issue.

Education background

After studied at the Sekolah Aminuddin Baki Chemor, Radin Umar joined Royal Military College before furthered his study in United Kingdom. He completed Bachelor and Master in Engineering, both from University of Sheffield in year 1984 and 1985 respectively. Then, he obtained PhD in Engineering from University of Birmingham in 1996, specialisation in "Accident Diagnostic Systems".

Career

Started from 1985, Radin Umar was a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering in UPM, and then he served as Dean of the faculty from 1999 until 2004. In the year between 2005 and 2006, he held the post as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UPM.
Upon the establishment of Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research in 2007, he was appointed as the first Director-General, and later succeed by Ahmad Farhan Mohd Sadullah. His leave opened up another path for his career, as he was appointed as second Director-General of the Department of Higher Education in 2008. Few years later, he back to UPM and served as the Vice-Chancellor until his resignation in the end of 2012.

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