Dr. Tengku Aizan Hamid is a professor in Gerontology and Social Policy and the founding Director of the Institute of Gerontology at the Universiti Putra Malaysia. She is also an executive council member of the Global National Transfer Accounts based in the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, and the current president of the Gerontological Association of Malaysia. As an early pioneer of gerontology, Tengku Aizen has been instrumental in the development of gerontological research and education in Malaysia. She is a member of both the National Advisory and Consultative Council on Ageing and the Technical Committee on the Health of Older Persons. She is also a member of the task force on aging led by YB Senator Chew Mei Fun and Social Safety Net under the Economic Planning Unit (EPU). She has served as a member of several subcommittees of the National Policy on Ageing, including as the consultant who developed the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Ageing that was adopted by the Head of State of ASEAN. At the international level, Tengku Aizen is an active advocator of regional cooperation and development in gerontology and geriatrics. In 2016, she started the Research Network on Ageing among ASEAN researchers and leads the Malaysian team on National Transfer Account. In 2008, Tengku Aizen was appointed by UNFPA to conduct a study mission for the establishment of a Regional Training and Ageing Research Center at the Health Science University, Mongolia.