Who is wan azizah

Skip to main content. Malaysia's new Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has taken up the cause of improving the lives of women who haven't worked outside their homes. Share gift link below with your friends and family. Link Copied!

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It's a day that will go down in history for many reasons and one of them is the announcement of Malaysia's upcoming first female Deputy Prime Minister— Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah. As strong advocates of women empowerment, this is hugely incredible and incredibly huge. It's the stepping stone towards a day when we will welcome our first female Prime Minister. Until then, we've rounded up some of the things you should know about Wan Azizah that makes her such an inspirational woman.

Wan Azizah was born on December 3, in Singapore but grew up in Kedah. She went on to pursue her tertiary education at Tunku Kurshiah College in Seremban before furthering her studies in medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. There, she was awarded a gold medal in obstetrics and gynaecology and later graduated as a qualified ophthalmologist. She worked in a government hospital for 14 years until her husband Anwar Ibrahim was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister in and thus decided to shift to voluntary work instead, namely with the National Cancer Council.

While she has been prominent in the political scene, many tend to forget that Wan Azizah is also a mother of six children and grandmother to nine grandchildren.