Amirudin Shari

Personal background

He grew up in Pontian, Johore. He received his secondary education at Sekolah Menengah Benut in Pontian and had his university education at Universiti Putra Malaysia, graduated with a bachelor's degree in Social Science. He was actively involved in student activism during his campus days and was known as a skilled debater.

After leaving university, Amirudin worked as program coordinator at Institute for Policy Research (Institut Kajian Dasar), a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the cause of cultural revivalism and the construction of civil society.

Throughout his career at the Institute for Policy Research, Amirudin carries out the drafting and supervision of social awareness programs including politics with series under his management such as Public Intellectual Forum, Tanwiri Islam Program and also Sekolah Politik, a program that enlightens politic for youngsters.

Besides, Amirudin acquired special training on electoral preparations 'How to Do a Campaign' under Konrad Adenauer Stiftung which held in Berlin and Munich, Germany. These experiences are vital as Amirudin always been given tasks on logistics, communications, and mobilisation on his early involvement in Parti Keadilan Rakyat.

In March 2005, Amirudin married Masdiana Muhamad. The couple have six children.

Youth chief aspirant

Active involvement in Keadilan Youth's Wing, Parti Keadilan Rakyat since 2004 and had been chosen as the Vice Chief of the division. On January 4, 2014, Amirudin announced his candidacy for the Keadilan Youth Chief's post with a team up alongside Yang Berhormat Tuan Dr Afif Bahardin in AMK Baru line ups for the upcoming party polls before losing to Yang Berhormat Tuan Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad on the most excruciating campaign to date.

In the three-way competition, AMK Baru faction led by Amirudin obviously dominates the party polls with landslide victories in popular states for Keadilan such as Selangor and Sabah while receiving good number of polls in Penang, Kedah, Kelantan, and Perak. However, final results shows that Nik Nazmi who won the post for Chief of Keadilan's Youth Wing in a black history after several branches objected into recounting the ballots resulting Amirudin's victory into losses by previously won ballot boxes.

For the record, the Deputy Chief AMK post, 3 Vice Chiefs AMK, and 16 out of 20 Central AMK Committee Members are won by representatives from AMK Baru.

Member of the Selangor State Assembly

Amirudin won his first attempt in the electoral campaign in 2008 as a young candidate which helped the Parti Keadilan Rakyat, Democratic Action Party, and Malaysian Islamic Party later formed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition defeated Barisan Nasional for the first time in Selangor electoral history. Amirudin toppled the favourite candidate, T. Mohan from Malayan India Congress (MIC) with a majority of 3,639.

Successfully retained his position after the 13th General Election with a win over his contender, Rawisandran Narayanan in a high voter turnout at 85.7% and Amirudin still manages to keep 55.03% popular votes with a majority of 3,261.

Appointment as Selangor State Executive Councillor

In September 2014, with the appointment of the new Menteri Besar of Selangor, Azmin Ali, Amirudin was appointed as the State Executive Councillor in charge of Youth Development, Sports, Cultural and Entrepreneurship Development which preceded by Yang Berhormat Dato' Dr Haji Ahmad Yunus Bin Hairi. Even before being appointed as the Selangor State Executive Councillor, Amirudin involves with policies making and state programmes for youths and sports whereas he was accounted as the vice for Selangor State Executive Councillor along with YB Dato' Haji Yunus Hairi and Jenice Lee. They created together the Penggerak Belia Tempatan (PeBT) and became the engineer of many youth programmes today in Selangor. Amirudin was also appointed as the Vice Chairman of Selangor Sports Council during Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim period.