Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob (Jawi: إسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 9th Prime Minister of Malaysia since August 2021.[1] A Member of Parliament (MP) for Bera since 2004, he is a member and Vice-President of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition which is aligned with the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. He served as the 13th Deputy Prime Minister from July 2021 to August 2021, serving for only 40 days, and several cabinet positions in successive governments from 2008 to 2021. As of a result of the ongoing 2020-21 Malaysian political crisis, he was formally appointed and sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 August 2021 following the resignation of his predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin.[2] He is the first Prime Minister of Malaysia born after the independence of Malaya in 1957, the first ever former Leader of the Opposition in Malaysia to become Prime Minister and the first ever Prime Minister who is not the one who is highest in rank in a political party.