InfoSAWIT, KUALA LUMPUR – The Board of Governor of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) recently announced that the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Bakhtiar Talhah would be as ad interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and active since 3 December 2019.

In the official statement of RSPO Secretariat that InfoSAWIT got, Tuesday (3/12/2019), Vice Chairman of Board of Governor, RSPO, Anne Rosenbarger and Dato' Carl Bek-Nielsen said that Bakhtiar is fully supported by the board. It is hoped that Bakhtiar would take the organization in good, stable, and powerful leadership during the transition.

Board of governor also convinced the secretariat and the members that every activity in RSPO would run that is managed by Bakhtiar Talhah and there would be no change in the daily operational.

Bakhtiar Talhah started joining RSPO Secretariat as Chief Operating Officer in January 2017 and played important role to strengthen the RSPO credibility by making and processing the Investigation and Monitoring Unit in RSPO, making the System of Information and Geographic, and other initiatives.

He got his degree from University of Princetons and Université Paris-Sorbonne. Before joining RSPO, he was the regional director in Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in Kuala Lumpur.

He also worked at many international companies, such as, PFC Energy and Nexant which focus too the downstream sector of oil. He also once worked at Petronas. Bakhtiar is also active in the people’s health issue in Malaysia and now he works at the AIDS Board in Malaysia and other local non-government organizations. (T2)