Datin Noor Azimah Binti Abd Rahim

Co-Founder Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia

Datin Noor Azimah is an accountant by profession. She has worked in Bank Negara, Price Waterhouse and Rashid Hussain Securities subsequently obtaining a post-graduate Certificate in Financial Planning (CFP). She opted to leave the corporate arena to raise her children and be involved in matters of education having held the positions of PTA Chairperson of SK Bukit Damansara, and Vice-Chairperson of SMK Seri Hartamas. 

At the height of the debate on the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics in English in 2008, Datin Noor Azimah, along with a team of like-minded parents, founded the Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE), a national society, to defend and ultimately ensure that “pupils are to be educated in accordance with the wishes of their parents”, as stated in the Education Act 1996.

She was named among The Edge’s Ten Inspiring Malaysians in 2013. She was a columnist in The Star and now writes for The Edge Weekly.She is also Chairman of the Elena Cooke Education Fund that was formed by her alumni the Bukit Bintang Girls’ School. She was in the National Education Advisory Council to the Minister of Education from 2018 to 2020. She is a member of G25 and committee member to Edunity Foundation, its funding arm. She has also been recently invited to join the Ministry of Education’s School Safety Reform Committee with the task of developing the guidelines for the anti-bullying bill.