Pn Nori Abdullah Badawi
Chairman of Yayasan Budi Penyayang, Owner of We Rock the Spectrum Kids Gym for All and Parent Advocate
Pn Nori Abdullah Badawi, an ardent advocate of special needs causes is a proud parent of 3 boys. It is her autistic son, Timor, who led her to become an advocate for autism and neurodiversity. By profession she a social entrepreneur who has worked in multiple areas including public policy research, media and social data monitoring, charities, corporate social responsibility, activism, politics as well as start-ups and branding. She began volunteering for various organizations and causes while at school and got her first paying job as a young teenager. For more than a decade, Pn Nori has been directing small businesses and NGOs as a servant leader throughout the most challenging times. Pn Nori hails from Convent Bukit Nanas, the International School of Kuala Lumpur and Syracuse University New York where she studied International Relations and Political/Economic Geography.
