Kamal Salih

Kamal bin Mat Salih (born 1946) is a Malaysian economist, physician, policy advisor, academic administrator and politician.

He was a professor, dean and deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Science, Malaysia between 1973 and 1985.

From 1986 to 1994, he was executive director of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research.

He co-founded the International Medical University (IMU) in 1993 and served as its first president until 2001 and as executive chairman until 2003.

After leaving IMU, he served as economic advisor to the National Implementation Task Force, a high-level group of experts established by the government of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.