Datuk Dr. Nasir Latif

Datuk Dr. Nasir Latif is a Strategic Partner / Advisor of Strategic Swiss Partners representing Brunei Darussalam and Timor-Leste.

He is the Brunei Country Director of the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA), a government advisory body to the BIMP countries and Chairman of the EAGA Development Corporation, focusing on trade, investment and development activities in the BIMP-EAGA region, specifically in manpower, aviation, halal trade, renewable energies, carbon credit trading, education and food security. Dr Nasir is Trade and Investment Advisor to the Timor-Leste Ambassador in Brunei and President of the Brunei-Timor-Leste Friendship Association. He is exclusively appointed by the governments of Brunei and Timor-Leste to recruit Timorese workers to Brunei and leads the largest food security project in Timor-Leste to achieve rice self-sufficiency for both Brunei and Timor-Leste. He is also Brunei Country Director of the Indonesian National Federation of Rural Farmers, the largest national cooperative and agricultural producer in Indonesia with a membership of 13.4 million members and spearheads the Brunei Food Valley, a bilateral food security initiative representing up to 1 million hectares of agricultural land.