Honorary Chair, International Science Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation under the Auspices of UNESCO (ISTIC); Chairman Global Council, InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) Science Education Program (SEP); STEM Advisor to Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia;  Pro-Chancellor, Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur; Member of International Committee, LAMAP Fondation France; Commissioner, UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development; Board member of Future University Sudan; Senior Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia; Founder President, Academy of Engineering and Technology of the Developing World; Founder President of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology; Foreign Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering; Founding Board member of the InterAcademy Council (IAC). He was President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO); Co-chair of Task Force “Science, Technology and Innovation” of the United Nations Millennium Project; Member of the Board of Trustees of Engineers Against Poverty, U.K; Member of International Advisory Board of Grand Challenges Canada and Member of the National Economic and Social Council Kenya.