Alex Ooi Thiam Poh is the Executive Director of the SC, where he leads the AOB as its Executive Officer.

Alex is currently involved in the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, the Ethics Standards Board and the Education Board of the MIA. Alex serves as an Adviser to the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board and also represents the SC as a member in the Audit Licensing Committee of the Ministry of Finance Malaysia. He was a former Council Member of MIA.

Alex is a member of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators’ Investor and Other Stakeholders Working Group and Sustainability Assurance Task Force. He is also currently a member of the CPA Australia Ethics and Professional Standards Centre of Excellence. He was the Malaysia Divisional President of CPA Australia from 2013 to 2014 and a former member of the Public Practice Advisory Board of CPA Australia in Melbourne, Australia.

Alex is a Chartered Accountant of the MIA, Fellow of CPA Australia, and a member of the ICAEW and the MICPA. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Accounting) from Monash University, Australia.