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Dr. Ramli is the founding Dean of the School of Communication, a position he held for more than six years. Since 1985, Dr. Ramli has produced several publications (books, chapters in books, and journal articles), research reports, conference/seminar papers, consultancy projects, and has been appointed an External Examiner of doctoral and masters dissertations/theses as well as an External Assessor for promotion exercises of several Malaysian universities. For his distinguished service to USM, he was honored with the Pingat Kelakuan Terpuji (Distinguished Conduct Medal) by the Governor of Penang, in 1994.

Dr. Ramli also works as a consultant to various international and national organizations. Since 1984, he has served as a consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations where he was sent on missions to train agriculture extension officials and field workers in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Zambia, Malaysia, Uganda, Malawi, Jamaica, Dominica, Jordan, Egypt and Italy on the need to transfer agriculture technology to target beneficiaries through a more systematic, demand-driven and cost-effective approach, i.e., through Strategic Extension Campaign (SEC). He also lectured for several years on SEC at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand.

He received his Ph.D. degree in 1983 from the University of Hawaii where was also awarded a fellowship from the East-West Center for his doctoral studies (1981-83) and for a research project on "Communication Policy Planning at Institutional Level" (1978-79). Supported by a UNESCO Fellowship, he studied at the University of Wisconsin and obtained an M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Journalism in 1976.