Nurhisham Hussein is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) since January 2020.

Nurhisham began his career in merchant banking in the 1990s, before joining Perwira Affin Bank in 1997 as part of the Corporate Planning Department. He later joined Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) in 2004 to head the Economics section of the Research Division. There he was responsible for monitoring, analysis and reporting of economic conditions in Malaysia and internationally, providing input for PNB’s investment decisions. He joined EPF after a stint with the Malaysian Rating Corporation Berhad (MARC), producing country reports, developing economic viewpoints and making quantitative forecasts.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Econs) in Monetary Economics from the University of London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Masters in Economics from University Malaya (UM).​