Dato’ Ir. Ts. Abdul Razib Bin Dawood started his early career with Tenaga Nasional Berhad Engineers Sdn. Bhd., and has more than 30 years of professional experience, having worked for both Malaysian and Australian national power utilities, independent power producers, TNSP and as a consultant for renewable energy. During his career highlights, he had held many roles such as a construction engineer, project manager, technical advisor, systems planning engineer and a power system study specialist.
From October 2012 to August 2017, he was the Head of Electricity Market Operations with the Energy Commission before assigned by the Prime Minister’s Department to be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Malaysia Nuclear Power Corporation from 2017 to 2018. On 9 April 2018, he was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Energy Commission. On 2 April 2019, he was appointed as the Acting Chief Executive Officer responsible for the overall administration and management of the functions of the Energy Commission. He subsequently became the Chief Operating Officer on 2018, and Acting CEO at the Energy Commission (Suruhanjaya Tenaga) of Malaysia, before being appointed as the CEO in August 2019.
Dato’ Ir. Ts. Abdul Razib Bin Dawood was officially appointed as the new Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) on 1 February 2025.