Rais Yatim

Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dato' Seri Utama Dr. Rais Yatim PSM SJMK SPMP SSAP SPNS SPDK DSNS
رئيس يتيم‎
8th Menteri Besar of Negeri Sembilan
In office 12 July 1978 – 29 April 1982
Monarch	Ja'afar
Preceded by	Mansor Othman
Succeeded by	Mohd Isa Abdul Samad
Constituency	Pertang
18th President of the Dewan Negara
In office 2 September 2020 – 15 June 2023
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Muhyiddin Yassin (2020–2021) Ismail Sabri Yaakob (2021–2022) Anwar Ibrahim (2022–2023)
Deputy	Abdul Halim Abdul Samad (2020) Mohamad Ali Mohamad (2020–2023)
Preceded by	Vigneswaran Sanasee
Succeeded by	Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar
6th President of the International Islamic University Malaysia
In office 3 June 2013 – 1 June 2018
Chancellor	Ahmad Shah
Preceded by	Mohd Sidek Hassan
Succeeded by	Maszlee Malik
Ministerial roles
1974–1976	Parliamentary Secretary of Culture, Youth and Sports
1976–1978	Deputy Minister of Law
1978	Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
1982–1984	Minister of Lands and Regional Development
1984–1986	Minister for Information
1986–1987	Minister of Foreign Affairs
1999–2004	Minister in the Prime Minister's Department
2004–2008	Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage
2008–2009	Minister of Foreign Affairs
2009–2013	Minister for Information, Communication and Culture
Personal details
Born	Rais bin Yatim (1942-04-16) 16 April 1942 (age 82) Kampung Gagu, Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan, Japanese-occupied Malaya (now Malaysia)
Citizenship	Malaysian
Political party	Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) (2018–present) United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) (1967-1988; 1996–2018) Parti Melayu Semangat 46 (S46) (1989-1996)
Other political affiliations	Perikatan Nasional (PN) (2020-present) Pakatan Harapan (PH) (2018-2020) Barisan Nasional (BN) (1967-1988; 1996-2018) Gagasan Rakyat (GR) (1989-1996) Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU) (1990-1996)
Spouse	Masnah Rais
Children	4 (including Danni)
Residence(s)	Taman Dataran Ukay, Hulu Kelang, Ampang Jaya, Selangor
Alma mater	University of Singapore (LLB, LLM) King's College London (PhD)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Lawyer

Tan Sri Dato' Seri Utama Dr. Rais bin Yatim (Jawi: رئيس بن يتيم; born 16 April 1942) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who served as the 18th President of the Dewan Negara from September 2020 to June 2023, 8th Menteri Besar of Negeri Sembilan from 1978 to 1982 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jelebu from November 1999 to May 2013.

He was a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the leading party in previous ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, except for a period in the 1990s when he became a member of the opposition Parti Melayu Semangat 46 (S46). Presently he is a member of Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) and its Chairman of the state of Negeri Sembilan, a component party of the ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) since he left UMNO to join BERSATU on 4 June 2018.^[1][2]

During his short break from active politics before joining BERSATU, he became the President of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) from 2013 to 2018.^[3]