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DATUK SERI DR WAN AZIZAH WAN ISMAIL

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Date of Birth: December 3, 1952

Place of Birth: Singapore

Primary School: St. Nicholas Convent School, Alor Setar, Kedah.

Secondary School: Tunku Kurshiah Colllege, Seremban, Negri Sembilan

University: Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. Awarded gold medal in obstetrics and gynaecolog­y. Graduated as a qualified ophthalmol­ogist.

Occupation: Ophthalmol­ogist for 14 yeears (Serving with the government)

POLITICAL CAREER

> Led Social Justice Movement (ADIL) in 1998 > Establishe­d Parti Keadilan Rakyat on AprilA 4,

1999

> PKR under her leadership won five parliament­ary seats in 1999 general elections

> Elected as Permatang Pauh MP after

1999 general elections

> Re-elected as Permatang Pauh MP in

2004 and 2008 elections.

> Vacated Permatang Pauh seat in July

31, 2008 to make way for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim

> Return to politics after re-elected as

Kajang assemblyma­n in 2014

> Re-elected as Permatang Pauh MP

in 2015 by-elections

> Announced as Pakatan Harapan

president on July 14, 2017

> Won Pandan parliament­ary seat in GEE14 > Sworn in as Malaysia’s first female

Deputy Prime Minister on May 21, 2018

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