OOI KEE BENG is turning 70. His rather youthful look belies his age. I remember driving him home in 2005 after one of our earliest meetings, and during our chat, was stunned when he said his eldest daughter was born in 1980. I thought he was only slightly older than me.
After the change of the Penang state government in 2008, I was assigned to bring change to it’s think tank, the Socio-economic and Environmental Research Institute (SERI), which in 2012 changed its name to Penang Institute. One of my earliest—and in hindsight, most lasting and prided—initiatives at the Institute was to turn a black-and-white periodical internal publication into a full-colour monthly magazine.
