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As Group Advisor, Tunku Zain Al-'Abidin provides sage advice when it comes to key decisions at UCSI Group and its subsidiaries. He also expands UCSI's presence overseas, enhancing its international network and making inroads into new markets. He has played key roles in the establishment of UCSI University's Bangladesh Branch Campus. In 2025, he appointed as UCSI University chancellor and the patron of UCSI Hospital.

Apart from his roles at UCSI, Tunku Zain is the Chancellor of UCSI University; the founding president of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs; the pro-chancellor of Islamic Science University Malaysia; a trustee of several educational and charitable foundations; an advisor or patron to numerous educational and cultural organisations; a committee member of several societies; a columnist in three newspapers and a Royal Fellow of the National University of Malaysia.

He received his MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and subsequently worked in the UK Houses of Parliament, the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore before returning to Malaysia. An Eisenhower Fellow, he has been selected for various leadership programmes by the governments of Australia, France and the EU.