RedR Malaysia was established on 31 January 2008 and registered with the Registrar of Society Malaysia.  The present President of RedR Malaysia is Dato’ Ir. Ahmad Husaini Bin Sulaiman.  The Deputy Presidents are Dato' Ir. Abdul Razak Bin Dahalan and Kapten Ir. Anuar Bin Hj. Yahya.

Although newly formed, RedR Malaysia is active in events and programs conducted by other RedR family members that include RedR Australia, RedR Canada, RedR India, RedR New Zealand, RedR Southern Africa, RedR Sri Lanka and RedR United Kingdom.

RedR Malaysia currently has fifty two (52) members.  It is now working actively to increase this and implement Training of Trainers programs and subsequently train its members for disaster relief deployments. 

The objective of RedR is to train and deploy engineers and members to provide relief in disaster situations.  The founder of RedR is Peter Guthrie and the idea for the formation of RedR actually came to him when he was assigned to work on Pulau Bidong, Malaysia in 1980 during the Vietnamese boat people crisis.  He realised that there was a pressing need for various engineering inputs in disaster situations such as sanitation, water supply and infrastructure and thus the necessity to start a register of engineers (Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief (RedR)) who could be called upon at short notice to work with frontline relief agencies.