WORKING EXPERIENCE AND CURRENT ENGAGEMENTS

Norliza is a senior communications specialist with more than 30 years of experience in Malaysia and international markets. She specialises in multiple sectors, including energy, finance, banking, aviation, telecommunications and hospitality and has experience in various communications practices, particularly reputation management, strategic communications, strategic planning, corporate and government stakeholder management, crisis communications, corporate social responsibility, branding, media relations and internal communications.

Norliza has helped organisations within ASEAN, the Middle East and America to develop and execute communication strategies. She is the only Malaysian in the world’s three most prestigious PR and marketing awards. She was named one of the ‘Top 500 Most Influential PR Professionals in PR Week Power Book 2014 and 2015’ by the global PR Week magazine and included in the ‘Power List 2014 - Top 50 Most Influential People in PR’ by PR Week Asia. The Internationalist, New York also named Norliza as ‘The Internationalist of the Year 2014’. Norliza is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Applied Communication at Multimedia University Malaysia. In recognition of her contribution in helping to architect and develop the faculty’s Bachelor in Strategic Communications programme, the faculty named its communications best student award after her - ‘Liz Kamaruddin Communication Excellence Award’.