WIM HONOURS A GREAT LADY - Dato Dr. Nellie Tan-Wong, CEO, Women’s Institute of Management She graduated as a medical doctor at a time when it was not common for a young Malay woman to choose the medical profession as her career. She was fated to marry Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s dynamic fourth Prime Minister, who brought about a lot of development to Malaysia and introduced the “Look East” policy. She joined the government service and became the second woman medical officer in the state of Kedah, when she frequently rode on motorbikes to get into the interior to take care of pregnant women in the rural areas. This is Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah bte Mohd Ali, an extraordinary woman who lived through an extraordinary experience. In 1979 she decided to stop working to concentrate fully on her role as mother to her children and as wife of the Minister of Education who was later elevated to Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister of Malaysia respectively. Today