Puan Halimatun Sa’adiah Abd. Halim graduated with Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 1997 from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. She commenced her professional career with PETRONAS with the Corporate Planning & Development Division, Business Improvement Unit where she first harnessed and built foundation of her knowledge and understanding of PETRONAS’ business.

She then joined PETRONAS’ Group Legal in 2000 and thereon assumed various leadership role within the division—as the Head of Legal for Oil, Marketing and Trading from 2011, Head of Legal Corporate Services and Technology from 2013, Head of Legal Gas and LNG from 2014.

She has also held directorship on the Board of various PETRONAS subsidiaries and was the Chief Compliance Officer, Legal Compliance Department, Group Legal in 2018 before her appointment as Group Chief Audit Executive in 2022.

Puan Halimatun is currently the Senior General Counsel of PETRONAS, providing strategic legal oversight on corporate, regulatory and governance matters across the Group