Hishammuddin Hussein

Yang Berhormat Dato' Seri Hishammuddin Hussein SPMP SSAP SIMP SPDK DGSM PNBS DPMJ DSAP MP
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	Najib Razak Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (acting)
Preceded by	Mohd Ali Rustam
Succeeded by	Mohamed Khaled Nordin
12th Youth Chief of the United Malays National Organisation
In office 1999–2009
President	Mahathir Mohamad Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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	Abdul Halim Muhammad V
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	Mizan Zainal Abidin Abdul Halim
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	Sirajuddin Mizan Zainal Abidin
Prime Minister	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Najib Razak
Preceded by	Musa Mohamad
Succeeded by	Muhyiddin Yassin
Minister of Youth and Sports
In office 15 December 1999 – 26 March 2004
Monarchs	Salahuddin Sirajuddin
Prime Minister	Mahathir Mohamad Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Preceded by	Muhyiddin Yassin
Succeeded by	Azalina Othman Said
Deputy Minister of Primary Industries
In office 12 November 1996 – 14 December 1999
Monarchs	Ja'afar Salahuddin
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
Incumbent
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 (1961-08-05) 5 August 1961 (age 63) 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 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.