Tan Sri Dato’ Alwi bin Jantan adalah pengerusi bukan eksekutif UOA Real Estate Invesment Trust ; Naib Presiden Resort World Bhd .
Dalam kerajaan, beliau pernah menjadi Ketua Pengarah, Arkib Negara dan Perpustakaan Malaysia ; Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri Selangor ; Ketua Setiausaha, Kementerian Kerajaan Tempatan dan Wilayah Persekutuan; Ketua Setiausaha, Kementerian Kesihatan ; Timbalan Ketua Setiausaha, Jabatan Perdana Menteri ; Ketua Setiausaha, Kementerian Pertanian dan terakhir pada 1987 sebagai Ketua Pengarah, Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) sebelum bersara.
Keluarga
Alwi Jantan lahir pada 16 April 1935 di Dungun, Terengganu. Isterinya Puan Sri Datin Sharifah Aminah binti Syed Bahaldin dan mereka dikurniakan dua anak iaitu Intan Aminah. Kini mereka menetapa di Persiaran Duta,50490 [[Kuala Lumpur].
Pendidikan
Alwi Jantan bersekolah di Kolej Melayu Kuala Kangsar dan mendapat B.A. (Hons) dan Universiti Malaya, Singapura. Pada 1979 beliau mendapat Diploma in Paleography, Archive and Diplomacy, Rome, Itali. Beliau pernah mengikuti kursus Advanced Management Programme,Harvard Business School.
Kerjaya
Pelbagai kerjaya telah dilaluinya. Antaranya ialah :
09/08/1958 Officer, Federal Establishment Office
15/11/1958 Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport
23/03/1961 Assistant Secretary, Prime Minister's Department
30/11/1961-20/01/1962 Private Secretary, Timbalan Yang DiPertuan Agong
01/03/1963 Deputy Pengarah, National Archives Malaysia
31/03/1965-06/05/1965 Private Secretary, Timbalan Yang DiPertuan Agong
15/02/1966 Pengarah, National Archives Malaysia
01/01/1971 Director-General, National Archives and Library Malaysia
01/07/1972 State Secretary, Selangor
01/01/1976 Secretary-General, Ministry of Local Government dan Federal Territory
19/09/1977 Secretary-General, Ministry of Health
01/03/1981 Deputy Secretary-General, Prime Minister's Department
16/06/1984 Secretary-General, Ministry of Agriculture
03/02/1987 Director-General, Public Services Department (PSD)
16/04/1990 Bersara.
Khidmat profesional dan sosial
Beliau dilantik bagi khidmat profesional dan sosial berikut :
1972-1976 Ahli, MOCCIS Board of Directors
1976-1977, & 1987 Ahli, Government Servants Housing Company (SPPK), Board of Directors
1977-1980 Ahli, LUTH Travel Agency, Board of Directors
1977-1984 Ahli, Pilgrimage Management & Fund (LUTH), Board of Directors
1981-1984 Ahli, LUTH Plantation Co. Board of Directors
Executive Vice President, Genting Berhad
10/08/1990 Director/ Executive Vice President (Public Affairs and Human Resources),Resorts World Bhd.
22/04/1991 Ahli, Board of Apex Equity Holdings Bhd.
14/08/1995 Pengarah, Guinness Anchor Bhd.
Pengarah, Awana Genting Highlands
2000 Pengarah, Kolej Antarabangsa Genting (KAG)
2012 Non-Independent Non-Executive Pengerusi, UOA Real Estate Invesment Trust
1966-1972 Ahli, University Court
1969-1971 Ahli, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), Board of Management
1978-1981 Ahli, University Malaya Council
1979-1981 Ahli, University Sains Malaysia Council
1989 Pengerusi, Government Worker Committee on Salaries
Feb 1989 Member of the Cabinet Committee against malpractices in government
1992/1993 Pengerusi, National Consumer Protection Advisory Council (NCPAC)
Keahlian
Dec 1990 Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS)
1955 Assistant Secretary-General, Federation of Malay Students Unions (GPMS)
1956 External Affairs Secretary, Federation of Malay Students Unions (GPMS)
1957-1958 President, Federation of Malay Students Unions (GPMS)
1958-1960 Treasurer, Malaysian Historical Society Council
1966-1972 Secretary, National Library Committee
01/01/1971 Director-General, National Archives and Library Malaysia
1968-1971 Founder Pengerusi, South East Asian Regional Branch of International Council on Archives (SARBICA)
1970-1971 Ahli, ICA Committee for Developing Countries
1971-1974 Founder Pengerusi, UNESCO Council for the Study of Malay Culture
1972 Organising Pengerusi, UNESCO International Meeting of Experts on Malay Culture, Kuala Lumpur
1973 Pengerusi, UNESCO International Conference on the Promotion of Malay Culture Studies, Bonn, Jerman
1974-1979 Pengerusi, UNESCO Advisory Committee for the Study of Malay Culture
Pengerusi, ICA Coordinating Committee on Guides to the Sources of the History of Nations
1975 Pengerusi, ICA General Conference on the Planning of Archives Development in the Third World, Dakar, Senegal
1976-1977, & 1987 Ahli, Government Servants Housing Company (SPPK), Board of Directors
1976-1980 Pengerusi, Malaysia Committee on Man and the Biosphere (MAB)
1976-1977 Ahli, Malaysian Organisation for Human Settlements (MHOS) Council
1977-1978 Ahli, Malaysian branch, Royal Asiatic Society Council
1979 Vice-President, Malaysian branch, Royal Asiatic Society Council
1977 Pengerusi, Taman Genting Cooperative Society
1978-1980 Founder Vice-President, UNESCO National Association of Malaysia
1984-1986 Ahli, ASEAN Agriculture Planning Development Centre Board of Planners, Bangkok
Pengerusi, ASEAN Plant Quarantine Training Institute (PLANTI) Board of Management, Kuala Lumpur
1985 Keynote Speaker, Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau International Conference, London
Aug 1989 President, Malaysian Administrative and Management Association (MASMA)
11/12/1991 Vice President, Harvard Business School Alumni Club
Beliau turut menjadi ahli berbayar di Lake Club ; Kelab Darul Ehsan ; Royal Selangor Golf Club
Awana Golf & Country Club dan Pengerusi, Economic and Social Affairs Committee, MCOBA-OV Council (MCOV)
Pingat dan anugerah
1965 Pingat Jasa Kebaktian (PJK) – Terengganu State Government
1968 Kesatria Mangku Negara (KMN) – Federal Government
1969 Dato' Paduka Mahkota Terengganu (DPMT) – which carries the title " Dato' " – Terengganu State
1976 Dato' Paduka Mahkota Selangor (DPMS) – which carries the title " Dato' " – Selangor State Government
1986 Panglima Setia Mahkota which carries the title " Tan Sri " – Federal Government
1989 Sri Mahkota Terengganu (SPMT) which carries the title " Dato' " – Terengganu State Government
Panglima Negara Bintang Sarawak (PNBS) which carries the title "Datuk" – Sarawak State Government
24/10/2002 Sri Indera Mahkota Pahang (SIMP) which carries the title " Dato' " – Pahang
1965-1966 Fellowship in Archives and Libraries in the UK, Netherlands, Federal Republic of Germany and France dan Unesco. [1]