Tan Sri Robert Kuok
Kuok started out humbly as an office boy and eventually became the clerk of a rice trading department in singapore.
Tan sri robert kuok. Merujuk kepada forbes nilai kekayaannya dianggarkan di sekitar 12 5 bilion pada tahun 2011 menjadikan beliau orang terkaya di malaysia dan seluruh asia tenggara pada tahun tersebut. Kuok bermula dengan berniaga gula beras dan tepung di tahun 1949. Tan sri robert kuok is what you call a self made billionaire entrepreneur with a net worth of 10 billion as reported by forbes.
And the trading skills he learned from his early days led him to be a successful businessman. Lahir pada 6 oktober 1923 di johor bahru johor. The experts include tun daim zainuddin tan sri zeti akhtar aziz tan sri hassan merican professor jomo kwame sundram and tan sri robert kuok.
He founded internationally renowned shangri la hotels in singapore in 1971. Since the announcement of this formation we ve seen news after news about the newly appointed council members meeting for discussion and updating the press about the latest developments except 94 year old kuok. Tan sri robert kuok together with big sugar producer and refiner liem sioe liong operated and expanded sugar plantations with mill and refineries in southern sumatra.
Malaysia s richest man robert kuok hock nien loses us 3 2 billion of net worth as tan sri syed mokhtar albukhary drops from the latest forbes 2020 billionaires list. Latar belakang tan sri robert kuok hock nien. He owns kuok group which has interest in hotels real estate and commodities.
Beliau merupakan ahli perniagaan cina malaysia. The youngest daughter of the richest man in malaysia robert kuok is no pampered princess and even pointed out that despite her father s net worth of 12 1 billion she grew up with significantly less pocket money than her peers. In may 2018 kuok was appointed to the council of eminent persons along with tun daim zainuddin tan sri datuk seri zeti akhtar aziz tan sri mohd hassan merican and jomo kwame sundaram.
Robert kuok is the richest man in malaysia.