Ms. Farah was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1996. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Law from the University of Kent in 1988, and was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, London in 1989.
Ms. Farah has over 26 years of legal and commercial expertise across Malaysia on regulatory requirements, locally and internationally, in the oil and gas, telecommunications and satellite industries as well as the palm oil plantation industry. She recently retired as the Group Legal Counsel from IOI Corporation, a public listed company in Malaysia with core businesses in palm oil plantations, palm oil downstream manufacturing and investment spanning across Malaysia, Singapore, China, Germany and the Netherlands. Previous to this, she was General Counsel at MEASAT Global, a Malaysian telecommunications company for 10 years, and concurrently managed her own private legal firm. Between 1989 to 1996, she worked for the Malaysian Government