Fadillah Yusof

Fadillah Yusof
فضيلة يوسف
Fadillah in 2021
14th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
Assumed office
3 December 2022
Serving with Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
MonarchsAbdullah
Ibrahim Iskandar
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
Preceded byIsmail Sabri Yaakob[a]
Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation
Assumed office
7 February 2024
MonarchIbrahim Iskandar
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
DeputyAkmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir
Preceded byHimself
(Minister of Energy Transition and Public Utilities)
ConstituencyPetra Jaya
Minister of Energy Transition and Public Utilities
In office
12 December 2023 – 7 February 2024
MonarchsAbdullah
(2022–2024)
Ibrahim Iskandar
(2024)
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
DeputyAkmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir
Preceded byNik Nazmi
(Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability)
Succeeded byHimself
(Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation)
ConstituencyPetra Jaya
Minister of Plantation and Commodities
In office
3 December 2022 – 12 December 2023
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
DeputySiti Aminah Aching
Preceded byZuraida Kamaruddin
Succeeded byJohari Abdul Ghani
Senior Minister of Works
In office
30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterIsmail Sabri Yaakob
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Senior Minister of Infrastructure Development
In office
10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterMuhyiddin Yassin
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byHimself
Minister of Works
In office
30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterIsmail Sabri Yaakob
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byAlexander Nanta Linggi
In office
10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021
MonarchAbdullah
Prime MinisterMuhyiddin Yassin
Preceded byBaru Bian
Succeeded byHimself
In office
16 May 2013 – 10 May 2018
MonarchsAbdul Halim
(2013–2016)
Muhammad V
(2016–2018)
Prime MinisterNajib Razak
Preceded byShaziman Abu Mansor
Succeeded byBaru Bian
Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation
In office
19 March 2008 – 15 May 2013
MonarchsMizan Zainal Abidin
(2008–2011)
Abdul Halim
(2011–2013)
Prime MinisterAbdullah Ahmad Badawi
(2008–2009)
Najib Razak
(2009–2013)
Preceded byKong Cho Ha
Succeeded byAbu Bakar Mohamad Diah
Senior Vice President of the
Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu
Assumed office
2017
PresidentAbang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg
Youth Chief of the
Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu
In office
2007–2017
PresidentAbdul Taib Mahmud
(2007–2014)
Adenan Satem
(2014–2017)
Abang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg
(2017)
Succeeded byGerald Rentap Jabu
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Petra Jaya
Assumed office
21 March 2004
Preceded bySulaiman Daud
(BNPBB)
Majority12,816 (2004)
14,397 (2008)
21,443 (2013)
15,017 (2018)
41,363 (2022)
Personal details
Born
Fadillah bin Yusof

(1962-04-17) 17 April 1962 (age 62)
Sibu, Crown Colony of Sarawak (now Malaysia)
Political partyParti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB)
(since 1989)
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional (BN)
(1989–2018)
Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS)
(since 2018)
SpouseRuziah Mohd Tahir
Children5
Alma materUniversity of Malaya (LLB)
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer
Fadillah Yusof on Parliament of Malaysia

Fadillah bin Yusof (Jawi: فضيلة بن يوسف; born 17 April 1962) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2022, Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation since 2023 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Petra Jaya since March 2004. He is the first DPM from Sarawak, one of the Borneo states in Malaysia and the second DPM not from the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) after Wan Azizah Wan Ismail from the People's Justice Party (PKR).

Previously, he served as the Minister of Plantation and Commodities from December 2022 to December 2023, Senior Minister in charge of Works and Minister of Works for the third term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Petra Jaya since March 2004. He served as the Senior Minister in charge of Infrastructure Development and Minister of Works for the second term in the PN administration under former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin from March 2020 to August 2021 and for the first term in Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former prime minister Najib Razak from May 2013 to May 2018,[1][2] Chair of the Science, Innovation and Environment Select Committee, one of only two select committees led by an opposition MP from December 2019 to his reappointment as a Minister in March 2020.[3][4]

Fadillah is a member of Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), a component party of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition.[5] He is also the Parliamentary Whip of GPS and has served as Senior Vice President of PBB since 2017. He was the Youth Chief of PBB from 2007 to 2017.


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  1. ^ "Fadillah bin Haji Yusof, Y.B. Tuan Haji" (in Malay). Parliament of Malaysia. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Deputy Minister: YB Tuan Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof". Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Four new select committees formed, one headed by opposition". Malaysiakini. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  4. ^ Abdullah, Maria Chin (4 December 2019). "Maria Chin Abdullah". facebook.com. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Works Minister Fadillah Yusof tests positive for Covid-19, undergoing home quarantine".