Shahrir Samad
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Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Utama Shahrir Abdul Samad MP |
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| Malaysian Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs | |
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In office 18 March 2008 – 9 April 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Shafie Apdal |
| Succeeded by | Ismail Sabri Yaakob |
| Member of Parliament for Johor Bahru | |
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Assumed office 8 March 2008 |
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Shahril bin Abdul Samad 22 November 1949 Kuantan, Pahang, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) |
| Political party | UMNO |
| Other political affiliations |
Barisan Nasional |
| Relations | Elder brother of Khalid Abdul Samad |
| Alma mater | University of Malaya |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | www |
Datuk Seri Utama Shahrir Abdul Samad (born 22 November 1949) is the former Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister, a member of Parliament, and the former chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club (BNBBC). He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the largest political component party in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. In Parliament – specifically the lower house of Parliament, the Dewan Rakyat – he represents the constituency of Johor Bahru in the state of Johor.
Khalid Abdul Samad, the Member of Parliament for Shah Alam, Selangor from the National Trust Party (Amanah) of Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition; is the younger brother of Shahrir.
In January 2017, he was appointed as the chairman of Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA).
Shahrir was born in Kuantan, Pahang, and attended local primary schools. He later attended the Malay College Kuala Kangsar for his secondary education. He went on to gain an economics degree from the University of Malaya in Statistics, and a Masters of Business Administration from the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.
In 1973 he became the youngest political secretary in the country when he became political secretary to Musa Hitam, later Deputy Prime Minister. After his tenure expired in 1975, he became political secretary to Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak till 1976. Shahrir first ran for public office in the 1978 general election, when he won the Parliamentary seat of Johor Bahru. He was initially appointed Deputy Minister, of Trade and Industry, but later became Minister of Welfare, Youth and Sports, and in 1987 took up the post of Federal Territory Minister. He also served as political secretary to Prime Minister Tun Hussein Onn from 1983 to 1986. Shahrir was sacked that year in the events leading up to the 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's challenge to Prime Minister and UMNO President Mahathir Mohamad. In 1988, Shahrir resigned from his Parliamentary seat, and ran for re-election in the resulting by-election as an independent. A year later, he rejoined UMNO, while Razaleigh went on to form Parti Melayu Semangat 46 (S46). He subsequently was dropped as UMNO candidate in the 1990, 1995 and 1999 general elections.
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