Founded in 1978, and still bound by the objects written that year.
The American Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) was founded in 1978 as an international, non-profit, private-sector business association. It comprises more than 1600 members representing about 300 American, Malaysian, and other international companies.
The chamber overview
The Chamber is a member of the AmChams of Asia Pacific (AAP) a non-governing association of 28 AmChams in the region that come together to support engagement in the Asia Pacific.
AMCHAM is the voice of U.S. businesses in Malaysia. The Chamber provides relevant business information to its members, actively serves as a platform to represent members’ interests to Malaysian and U.S. stakeholders. It organizes a host of business and social networking events, allowing members to interact and foster closer relations with Malaysian businesses and local communities.
amcham.com.my/about-usAMCHAM services cover four key areas: advocacy and government relations, communications, events and programs, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs.
Mission and objectives
The five objects the chamber lists on its own about page, in its own order and its own words.
- To promote and develop mutually-prosperous commercial, cultural and community relations between American and Malaysian businesses and organizations.
- To provide a forum for discussing and exchanging views on business conditions, both domestic and international, which affect members’ interests.
- To promote, foster, support, represent and protect the interests of AMCHAM’s member companies.
- To represent and express members’ views on trade and related issues to U.S. and Malaysian Government representatives.
- To provide resources, networking opportunities and support for the American business community in Malaysia.
The Board of Governors
The Board of Governors as the chamber publishes it, with the portrait it publishes beside each name. Two of the sixteen seats are held by the United States Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
The executive office
The executive office, as their own page publishes it. The chamber prints one switchboard rather than a direct line for each person, so no direct number appears here.
How the chamber is constituted
From the constitution the chamber publishes on its own about menu, in the 2025 text. Nothing below is our reading of what a chamber usually does: each line is the substance of one numbered paragraph of theirs.
The record
From their own annual report page, which prints the date of each Annual General Meeting and links the audited Report of the Governors and Financial Statements laid before it. The reports themselves stay on their site.
Membership is open to all companies and individuals who subscribe to the objectives of AMCHAM.
Membership is open to all companies and individuals who subscribe to the objectives of AMCHAM. People of all nationalities, from any sector or organization, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, government representatives, educators, students, and individuals, may join AMCHAM. American citizenship is not a requirement. Members are not required to reside in Malaysia.