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ريزال ماريکان ناينا ماريکان‎
	Reezal Merican in 2022
9th Chairman of the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 May 2023
Minister	Tengku Zafrul Aziz
Chief Executive Officer	Mohd Mustafa Abdul Aziz
Minister of Housing and Local Government
	In office; 30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Deputy	Ismail Muttalib
Preceded by	Zuraida Kamaruddin
Succeeded by	Nga Kor Ming ; (Minister of Local Government Development)
Constituency	Kepala Batas
Minister of Youth and Sports
	In office; 10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Muhyiddin Yassin
Deputy	Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal
Preceded by	Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman
Succeeded by	Ahmad Faizal Azumu
Constituency	Kepala Batas
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 29 July 2015 – 10 May 2018
Monarchs	Abdul Halim ; (2015–2016) ; Muhammad V ; (2016–2018)
Prime Minister	Najib Razak
Minister	Anifah Aman
Preceded by	Hamzah Zainudin
Succeeded by	Marzuki Yahya
Constituency	Kepala Batas
Chief of the Elections Department of the ; United Malays National Organisation
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 22 March 2023
President	Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly; for Bertam
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 12 August 2023
Preceded by	Khaliq Mehtab Mohd Ishaq ; (PH–BERSATU)
Majority	2,321 (2023)
Member of the Malaysian Parliament; for Kepala Batas
	In office; 5 May 2013 – 19 November 2022
Preceded by	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ; (BN–UMNO)
Succeeded by	Siti Mastura Mohamad ; (PN–PAS)
Majority	4,176 (2013) ; 4,736 (2018)
Faction represented in Penang State Legislative Assembly
2023–	Barisan Nasional
Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat
2013–2022	Barisan Nasional
Personal details
Born	Reezal Merican bin Naina Merican; 29 July 1972 (age 51); Kepala Batas, Seberang Perai Utara, Penang, Malaysia
Citizenship	Malaysian
Political party	United Malays National Organisation (UMNO)
Other political; affiliations	Barisan Nasional (BN)
Spouse(s)	Ismalina Ismail, Sharifah Norhaslinda
Alma mater	International Islamic University Malaysia

Reezal Merican bin Naina Merican (Jawi: ريزال ماريکان بن ناينا ماريکان‎;^[1] born 29 July 1972) is a Malaysian politician and banker who has served as 9th Chairman of the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) since May 2023 and Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bertam since August 2023.^[2] He served as the Minister of Housing and Local Government in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022, the Minister of Youth and Sports in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kepala Batas from the retirement of 5th and former Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as the MP from politics in May 2013 to his electoral defeat in November 2022. He is also a member and Division Chief of Kepala Batas of the Supreme Council of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition and one of the only two Penang BN and UMNO MLAs alongside MLA for Sungai Acheh Rashidi Zinol. He has also served as Chief of the Elections Department of UMNO since March 2023. He is an ethnic Malay of mixed Indian descent.

^ "Malaysia intends to join the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programe". Malaysia National News Agency (Bernama) - Arabic (in Arabic). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
^ "Reezal Merican is new MATRADE chairman". The Star. 2 May 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2023.

[1] "Malaysia intends to join the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programe". Malaysia National News Agency (Bernama) - Arabic (in Arabic). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.

[2] "Reezal Merican is new MATRADE chairman". The Star. 2 May 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2023.

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