Background
He was born in Penampang, Sabah, and received his education in Master of Science Saint Michael, Penampang and Master of Science Louisiana Salle, Tanjung Aru.
He was born in Penampang, Sabah, and received his education in Master of Science Saint Michael, Penampang and Master of Science Louisiana Salle, Tanjung Aru.
Later he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of East London.
He was the Chief Minister of Sabah from 1998 to 1999 and a federal minister from 2004 to 2013. In October 2015, Dompok was appointed as Malaysia’s first resident ambassador to the Vatican. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM)
He started his career as a valuer at the Sabah Lands & Surveys Department in 1978.
Then he left the public sector and worked as a private valuer for about five years from 1980 until 1985.
He became the President of the United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Dusun Murut Organisation (UPKO), then known as the Parti Demokrat Sabah, in 1994. After switching to the Barisan Nasional, he lost his parliamentary seat at the 1995 election to a Public Broadcasting Service candidate.
He served in a range of ministries in the state government, before assuming the post of Chief Minister, on a rotating basis, from 1998 to 1999. In 2004 he joined the Federal Cabinet as Minister in the Prime Minister"s Department and in 2009 became Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities.
His federal parliamentary career ended at the 2013 election, when he lost his parliamentary seat to Darrell Leiking of the People"s Justice Party (PKR).
The party was formed when Dompok and others split from the Parti Bersatu Sabah to join the Barisan Nasional coalition and deliver the coalition a majority in the Sabah State Legislative Assembly.
He was the president of the United Pasokmomogun Kadazan Dusun Murut Organisation (UPKO) from 1994 to 2014 and was a member of the Parliament of Malaysia from 1986 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2013. Despite losing his federal seat, Dompok remained a state assemblyman and a senior member of the Barisan Nasional state government that he had helped to form.
Married Diana Dompok. 5 children.