Dato' Jana Santhiran Muniayan
Secretary General
Ministry of Transport Malaysia
Dato' Jana Santhiran Muniayan is currently the
Secretary General for Ministry of Transport.
Prior to his appointment as the Secretary
General, Dato’ Jana Santhiran was the
Secretary General of the Ministry of Youth and
Sports Malaysia from 5 January 2022 until 16
January 2023.
He was then promoted as Deputy Secretary General (Management)
of the Ministry of Transport until December 2020. After that he was transferred to be the Head of Secretariat of the
Investigative Committee for Governance, Procurement and Government Finance under the Prime Minister’s
Department until August 2021.
He has been serving the Malaysian Government as an Administrative and Diplomatic Service Officer for 27 years where
he started as an Assistant Director in the Ministry of Rural Development in 1995. One year later, he was posted to the
Ministry of Education (MOE) as Assistant Secretary in the Development and Privatisation Division and was later
promoted to be Principal Assistant Secretary in 2003 in the same division. In his time with the MOE, he was also the
Project Manager for Asian Development Bank and World Bank’s Education Projects in Malaysia.
Dato' Jana Santhiran then joined as a Principal Assistant Secretary in the Policy and Strategic Planning Unit, Ministry of
Housing and Local Government where he was promoted to be the Secretary of Tribunal for Homebuyer Claims, in
September 2007. In the following year, he was made the Director of Abandoned Projects Rehabilitation Division, Ministry
of Housing and Local Government. In December 2014, he was promoted as the Undersecretary, Administration and
Finance Division, Ministry of Transport. Later, he served at the Ministry of Finance as Senior Deputy Director, National
Strategic Unit from May 2016 until September 2018. He was then promoted as Deputy Secretary General (Management)
of the Ministry of Transport until December 2020. After that he was transferred to be the Head of Secretariat of the
Investigative Committee for Governance, Procurement and Government Finance under the Prime Minister’s
Department until August 2021. Later on, he was appointed as the Deputy Secretary General (Environment) for Ministry
of Environment and Water.
Dato' Jana Santhiran has completed Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master in Management degrees from University
of Malaya. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration from the National Institute of Public
Administration (INTAN).
