Hishammuddin Hussein | |
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هشام الدين حسين | |
![]() Hishammuddin in 2018 | |
Treasurer General of the Barisan Nasional | |
In office 23 October 2019 – 27 April 2023 | |
Chairman | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi |
Preceded by | Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor |
Succeeded by | Johari Abdul Ghani |
Deputy President of the United Malays National Organisation | |
Acting 12 May 2018 – 30 June 2018 | |
President | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (acting) |
Preceded by | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (acting) |
Succeeded by | Mohamad Hasan |
Vice President of the United Malays National Organisation | |
In office 26 March 2009 – 30 June 2018 | |
President |
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Preceded by | Mohd Ali Rustam |
Succeeded by | Mohamed Khaled Nordin |
12th Youth Chief of the United Malays National Organisation | |
In office 1999–2009 | |
President |
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Preceded by | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi |
Succeeded by | Khairy Jamaluddin |
Senior Minister of Security Cluster | |
In office 30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022 | |
Monarch | Abdullah |
Prime Minister | Ismail Sabri Yaakob |
Preceded by | Himself |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
In office 7 July 2021 – 16 August 2021 | |
Monarch | Abdullah |
Prime Minister | Muhyiddin Yassin |
Preceded by | Ismail Sabri Yaakob |
Succeeded by | Himself |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022 | |
Monarch | Abdullah |
Prime Minister | Ismail Sabri Yaakob |
Preceded by | Ismail Sabri Yaakob |
Succeeded by | Mohamad Hasan |
In office 16 May 2013 – 10 May 2018 | |
Monarchs | |
Prime Minister | Najib Razak |
Preceded by | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi |
Succeeded by | Mohamad Sabu |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021 | |
Monarch | Abdullah |
Prime Minister | Muhyiddin Yassin |
Preceded by | Saifuddin Abdullah |
Succeeded by | Saifuddin Abdullah |
Minister with Special Functions | |
In office 12 April 2017 – 10 May 2018 | |
Monarch | Muhammad V |
Prime Minister | Najib Razak |
Preceded by | Position restored |
Succeeded by | Position vacated |
Minister of Transport | |
Acting 16 May 2013 – 24 June 2014 | |
Monarch | Abdul Halim |
Prime Minister | Najib Razak |
Preceded by | Kong Cho Ha |
Succeeded by | Liow Tiong Lai |
Minister of Home Affairs | |
In office 10 April 2009 – 20 April 2013 | |
Monarchs |
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Prime Minister | Najib Razak |
Preceded by | Syed Hamid Albar |
Succeeded by | Ahmad Zahid Hamidi |
Minister of Education | |
In office 27 March 2004 – 10 April 2009 | |
Monarchs |
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Prime Minister |
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Preceded by | Musa Mohamad |
Succeeded by | Muhyiddin Yassin |
Minister of Youth and Sports | |
In office 15 December 1999 – 26 March 2004 | |
Monarchs |
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Prime Minister |
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Preceded by | Muhyiddin Yassin |
Succeeded by | Azalina Othman Said |
Deputy Minister of Primary Industries | |
In office 12 November 1996 – 14 December 1999 | |
Monarchs |
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Prime Minister | Mahathir Mohamad |
Minister | Lim Keng Yaik |
Preceded by | Siti Zainaboon Abu Bakar |
Succeeded by | Anifah Aman |
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Sembrong | |
Assumed office 21 March 2004 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Majority | 16,978 (2004) 11,570 (2008) 10,631 (2013) 6,662 (2018) 10,880 (2022) |
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Tenggara | |
In office 25 April 1995 – 21 March 2004 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Succeeded by | Adham Baba |
Majority | 24,518 (1995) 20,817 (1999) |
Personal details | |
Born | Hishammuddin bin Hussein 5 August 1961 Johor Bahru, Johor, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) |
Political party | United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) Suspended membership on 27 January 2023. |
Other political affiliations | Barisan Nasional (BN) Suspended membership on 27 January 2023. |
Spouse |
Tengku Marsilla Tengku Abdullah
(m. 1987) |
Relations | Jaafar Muhammad (great-grandfather) Onn Jaafar (grandfather) Mohamed Noah Omar (grandfather) Onn Hafiz Ghazi (nephew) Abdul Razak Hussein (uncle) Najib Razak (cousin) Yahya Awang (brother-in-law) |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) | Hussein Onn (father) Suhailah Noah (mother) |
Residence(s) | Ampang, Kuala Lumpur |
Education | Malay College Kuala Kangsar St. John's Institution Cheltenham College |
Alma mater | Aberystwyth University (LLB) London School of Economics (LLM) |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Lawyer |
Hishammuddin bin Tun Hussein (Jawi: هشام الدين بن حسين; born 5 August 1961) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who served as Senior Minister of the Security Cluster and Minister of Defence from 2021 to 2022.[1][2] A member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, he has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sembrong since 2004, having previously been an MP for Tenggara from 1995 to 2004.
Hishammuddin was born in Johor Bahru to Hussein Onn and Suhailah Noah. His father was the third prime minister of Malaysia. He attended Malay College Kuala Kangsar, St. John's Institution, Alice Smith School, and Cheltenham College. He then graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Aberystwyth University and a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics before working as a lawyer.[3] After making partner at Skrine, he started his own firm, Lee Hishammuddin, which later merged with Allen and Gledhill to form Lee Hishammuddin Allen and Gledhill.
On his return from the UK, Hishammuddin joined UMNO. He was first elected to the Dewan Rakyat in the 1995 election, winning the seat of Tenggara. He was later appointed deputy minister and was promoted to full minister in 1999. In 1999, he was elected as UMNO's youth chief, and subsequently as its vice president in 2009. Since then, he has held various ministerial positions until the defeat of BN in the 2018 election. Despite the defeat, he managed to retain his Sembrong seat.
At the beginning of the political crisis that started in 2020, Hishammuddin returned to the cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition led by Muhyiddin Yassin. Amid the worsening political crisis in July 2021, Muhyiddin appointed Hishammuddin as Senior Minister of Security Cluster to replace Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who was appointed Deputy Prime Minister. He briefly served in the office until August 2021, after Muhyiddin announced his resignation. Two weeks after that, Hishammuddin returned again to the cabinet under the new Prime Minister Ismail Sabri, who re-appointed him as senior minister. He was also appointed the Minister of Defence, an office he had held previously from 2013 to 2018.