P Gunasegaram

Guna has been a business journalist, analyst, editor, columnist and author for over 45 years.
He first met Idris Jala after he became CEO of Malaysia’s national airline, Malaysia Airlines, in 2005, and undertook a major, successful transformation of the airline, returning it to record profits. Guna has closely followed Idris’ career path since and has been transfixed by his achievements and methods.

He is an author of three books, including the first book written on the world’s biggest kleptocracy 1MDB – a Malaysian strategic development company gone terribly wrong and corrupt – and two others on the history of Malaysia’s central bank and a biography of the first Malaysian central bank governor.

Guna tries to break down complex things into smaller bite size pieces for consumption by the general public. He spent many hours over many months talking with Idris for this book, his main brief being to make the book readable, concise, clear and interesting.

He thoroughly enjoyed helping to write this book and learned much about transformation. It is his professional opinion, as an analyst and journalist, that this book offers a great and invaluable contribution to the limited literature on true, tremendous transformation which lasts.