Dato’ M Rais Yatim
He
is a Malaysian leading politician. He was a minister in multiple federal
governments from 1974 to 2013 and the Menteri
Besar
of Negeri
Sembilan from 1978 to 1982. He held the Jelebu seat
in the Parliament of Malaysia until 2013. He was a member of
the United Malays National Organizatio
(UMNO), the leading party in Malaysia's previous ruling Barisan
Nasional (BN) coalition, except for a period in the 1990s when he was a
member of the opposition Parti
Melayu
Semangat
46 (S46). Presently he is a member of Malaysian United Indigenous
Party (PPBM), a component of Pakatan
Harapan (PH)
ruling coalition since he quitted UMNO to join PPBM on 4 June 2018. After
leaving politics he became the President of the International Islamic
University Malaysia (IIUM).