YTL Land & Development Berhad appointed DATO' YOOGALINGAM A/L VYRAMUTTU as Independent and Non Executive Director. Date of change is 05 September 2019. He started his career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in October 1968 as Assistant Secretary to the Administrative and Diplomatic Service of Malaysia. Thereafter, he served at Malaysia's embassies in Vietnam, Yugoslavia, the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Korea. In 1986, he returned to Malaysia to take up the position of Deputy Director General (ASEAN National Secretariat). Dato' Yoogalingam was subsequently posted as High Commissioner of Malaysia to Papua New Guinea, concurrently accredited to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in 1989, and then to the Republic of Zimbabwe, concurrently accredited to Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Mauritius, Seychelles, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia in 1994. In 1998, he was posted as Ambassador of Malaysia to the Republic of Korea where he served until retiring from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in June 2003. He was a director of YTL Cement Berhad from 26 April 2004 until his resignation on 19 June 2019. He is a director of Lafarge Malaysia Berhad.