Speaker

YBhg. Prof. Datin Paduka Dr. Fatimah Mohamed Arshad

Fatimah is a research fellow at the Institute of Agricultural and Food Policy Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia specializing in agricultural marketing and policy analyses. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Kuala Lumpur.She is a member of the country’s National Agriculture Advisory Council, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAFI)[1] since 2018. Her research areas include; agricultural marketing and economics issues, policy analyses, food security, food supply chain and marketing, price analyses and forecasting and commodity and agricultural sector modelling. She has developed a vintage model for estimating oil palm production and an econometric model of the Malaysia’s commodity sector (comprises oil palm, rubber, cocoa, food crops, livestock and fisheries). She has carried out system dynamics analyses on the archetypes of commodity sector growth (oil palm, rubber and cocoa) and modelling of the paddy and rice sector in Malaysia.