Radin Umar Radin Sohadi

Radin Umar bin Radin Sohadi is a Malaysian academic administrator. He was the first Director-General of Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) when the agency established in 2007. From 2008 to 2010, he was appointed as the second Director-General of Higher Education, succeed Hassan Said. Then, he served as the 6th Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Putra Malaysia from 1 January 2011 until 31 December 2012. He resigned from the office due to health issue.

Education background After studied at the Sekolah Aminuddin Baki Chemor, Radin Umar joined Royal Military College before furthered his study in United Kingdom. He completed Bachelor and Master in Engineering, both from University of Sheffield in year 1984 and 1985 respectively. Then, he obtained PhD in engineering from University of Birmingham in 1996, specialisation in "Accident Diagnostic Systems".

Upon the establishment of Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) in 2007, he was appointed as the first Director-General, and later succeed by Ahmad Farhan Mohd Sadullah.