H.E. Datin Sarah Al Bakri Devadason is the Malaysian Representative to the ASEAN-IPR Governing Council. She is the Permanent Representative of Malaysia to ASEAN.
She is a career diplomat who joined the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Service in March 1994. She read law and graduated with LLB (Hons.) from the University of Malaya and completed the postgraduate Diploma in Public Management from the National Institute of Public Administration, Malaysia. She was admitted to the Malaysian Bar (Roll of Advocates and Solicitors) before the High Court of Malaya in Peninsula Malaysia in 1994.
Prior to joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Wisma Putra), she had served at Malaysia Airlines and the Ministry of Defence. Since joining Wisma Putra in 1996, she has been assigned to its ASEAN Department, Territorial and Maritime Affairs Division, Adjudication and Arbitration Division, Policy Planning and Strategy Department and Human Rights and Humanities Division. Her foreign assignments have been as Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations in New York (2001 – 2004), as well as Minister Counsellor and subsequently, Deputy Permanent Representative of Malaysia to ASEAN in Jakarta (2010 – 2013). Prior to the current assignment, she served as the Ambassador of Malaysia to Germany from 2017 to 2020.
Married to Syed Mohamad Hasrin Tengku Hussin, a fellow diplomat, Sarah is blessed with five sons.