John Zinkin

Chief Executive Officer, SIDC

John Zinkin has 38 years experience in business, of which 20 have been in Asia, holding senior line management and corporate strategy/business development positions in major multinational manufacturing, marketing and consulting companies.

He is also the Deputy Chairman of Institute of Corporate Responsibility, Malaysia - a network designed to promote best practices in Corporate Social Responsibility. He is the Visiting Fellow of the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility in Nottingham, UK where his areas of research are CSR and Corporate Governance.

He has written "What CEOs must do to succeed", published by Prentice Hall in 2003 and co-authored "Corporate Governance", published by John Wiley in 2005.

Formerly Special Professor of Brand Marketing and Associate Professor of Marketing and Strategy at the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, he was responsible for the MBA programme.

John attended the London Business School where he received an MSc in Business Admininstration; Magdalen College, Oxford where he majored in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and Winchester College.