page_title: Najib Razak
section_title: Foreign policy and state visits
hierarchical_section_title: Najib Razak / Prime Minister / Foreign policy and state visits
caption_attribution_description: VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (September 9, 2012) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greets Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak before their meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Week [State Department photo by William Ng/Public Domain]
context_page_description: Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malaysia from April 2009 to May 2018. He is the son of another former prime minister, Abdul Razak Hussein. Najib Razak was the chairman of the Barisan Nasional coalition from April 2009 to May 2018 and the president of the United Malays National Organisation from November 2008 to May 2018, which had maintained control of Malaysia's government with a parliamentary majority for more than sixty years until the coalition's defeat in the 2018 general election.
  Najib was elected to the Parliament of Malaysia in 1976, at the age of 23, replacing his deceased father in the Pahang-based seat of Pekan. In the same year, he was appointed the head of UMNO Youth's Pekan branch and became a member of the youth wing's Executive Council. In the early years of his political career, Najib took on a deputy prime minister role in 1976, and between 1982 and 1986, he was the Menteri Besar of Pahang. Thereafter, until 2009, he was rotated throughout the Cabinet of Malaysia, taking on various ministerial portfolios in defence, education, culture, youth and sports, and finally finance.
caption: Najib meeting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Vladivostok, 9 September 2012
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