Tan Sri Dr Nik Norzrul Thani is the Executive Chairman of Zaid Ibrahim & Co., one of Malaysia’s largest law firms. Before joining Zaid Ibrahim & Co., he worked at international law firm Baker & McKenzie. In 2017, he was appointed Chairman of the Malaysia-Singapore Business Council by the Ministry of International Trade & Industry.

Tan Sri Dr Nik Norzrul Thani is currently also the Chairman of Malaysian Rating Corporation Berhad (MARC), IHH Healthcare Berhad, SD Guthrie Berhad (formerly known as Sime Darby Plantation Berhad), and T7 Global Berhad, as well as a director of several public companies including Cagamas Holdings Berhad.

Tan Sri Dr Nik Norzrul Thani obtained his LLB (Hons) from the University of Buckingham; LLM from Queen Mary College, University of London; and PhD in Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London; and is a Barrister at Law, Lincoln’s Inn. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School from 1996 to 1997, a Chevening Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University, from 2004 to 2005, and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA).