Augustine Ong

Who is Augustine Ong?

Tan Sri Dr Augustine Soon Hock Ong is the Chairman of the International Society for Fat Research since 1997 and the President of the Malaysian Oil Scientists' and Technologists' Association, Senior Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry London and Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences.

He is a student of St. Francis Institution, in Malacca. He is a graduate of the University of Malaya and King's College London. He is internationally recognized in the field of lipid chemistry.

Ong has had extensive experience in teaching, research and administration at the university level. He was serving as Dean, School of Chemical Sciences, and University Science Malaysia before joining the private sector where he was the former Director-General of the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia from 1987 to 1989 and former Director in Science and Technology, Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council from 1990 to 1996.

He has acquired extensive networking in the oils and fats industry as well as in the academic world both locally and overseas. He was the Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1966 to 1967. He spent a sabbatical year in the University of Oxford as the Visiting Professor at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, 1976 to 1977.