Hafimi Abdul Haadii, ABLAC 2023 Co-Chair

Hafimi Abdul Haadii is from a 3rd generation business family in Brunei Darussalam and currently Executive Director of LVK Group of Companies. Her formative years were spent in Brunei, New Zealand and Australia. She is the Chairperson of Competition Commission of Brunei Darussalam since 2018 and a former Member of the Legislative of Brunei Darussalam from 2017-2022.

She is a founding member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association of Brunei (YEAB) in 2000, and its President from 2012-2013. From 2008-2013 she was part of the team which started the ASEAN-China Young Entrepreneurs Forum with Brunei successfully hosting the 5th edition of the Forum in 2013. Till today the cause of young entrepreneurs remains very much at the core of what Hafimi enjoys outside of her other roles and is an Advisory Member to the YEAB.

In 2013 Hafimi was appointed to the APEC Business Advisory Council as a Member for Brunei Darussalam and had several active roles as a Woking Group Chair (2019-2020) & Co-Chair (2017-2018) for ABAC’s Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Working Group and Co-Chair (2015) for Sustainable Development Working Group. She is currently the Chair for ABAC’s Inclusion Task Force (2023). Hafimi is a member of Brunei’s Digital Economy Council and currently holds Board positions as well on UBD Corp Sdn Bhd in Brunei and TOQQA Global in Australia.

Within the community, Hafimi chairs the Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Foundation’s Committee on Social Enterprise Strategy, initiating a living incubation project called “Ristaan Abadi di Kg Bolkiah.”

She is an Old Geelong Grammarian and an alumnus of Deakin University holding a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) and in 2019 was awarded the medal of P.S.B.( The Most Blessed Order of Setia Negara Brunei-4th Class) by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di Pertuan Negara Brunei Darussalam.