Nguyễn Thiện Nhân

Nguyễn Thiện Nhân
Nguyễn Thiện Nhân
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh city Party Committee
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 May 2017
Preceded by	Đinh La Thăng
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front
	In office; 5 September 2013 – 22 June 2017
Preceded by	Huỳnh Đảm
Succeeded by	Trần Thanh Mẫn
Member of the Politburo
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 11 May 2013
Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam
	In office; 2 August 2007 – 11 November 2013
Prime Minister	Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Personal details
Born	12 June 1953 (age 71); Cà Mau Province, State of Vietnam
Political party	Communist Party of Vietnam

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Nguyễn Thiện Nhân (born 12 June 1953) is a Vietnamese politician and the current Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City's Central Party Committee since May 10, 2017. His previous post was the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front.^[1] He was a Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam between 2007 and 2013, and was Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam between 2006 and 2010. He is a member of the 11th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam. He had been the 1st vice mayor of Ho Chi Minh City before being appointed Minister of Education on June 28, 2006, by Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng. He was appointed by the National Assembly, upon recommendation of Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam.^[2] He got a PhD in cybernetics at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in East Germany in 1979.

Early life and career

Nguyễn Thiện Nhân was born on June 12, 1953 in Cà Mau, originally in Chau Thanh, Tra Vinh province. His father Nguyễn Thiện Thành was a Professor and a Doctor. His father was an active intellectual for the Vietnamese independence movement . After the Geneva Accords, 1954, his father brought his family to the North under the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Influenced by father, after high school, in June 1970, he enlisted and served in the Vietnam People's Army as a cadet in the field of engineering. In 1972 he was sent to study abroad at the Technical University of Magdeburg (German: Technische Hochschule Magdeburg), East Germany He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1976.

In 1979, he successfully defended his PhD thesis in Cybernetics. His doctoral dissertation is Untersuchungen zur automatischen Steuerung der optimalen Fahrweise von Fernwärmeversorgungssystemen (Automated Control Research for the Optimum Operating Method of the Heating System) . After returning home in 1980, he worked as a researcher at the Controlled Arms Institute of the Military Institute of Technology under the Ministry of Defense (now the Missile Institute of the Military Science and Technology Institute) until 1983. [Also in 1980, he was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1980, Lieutenant in 1982.

In 1993, he studied and earned an MPA of governance at the University of Oregon and a course of Investment Project Assessment at Harvard University, USA. He has been the professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. Nguyễn Thiện Nhân is known for some efforts in reform of Vietnamese education system, widely supported by the Vietnamese public. He is also one of the high senior officials in Vietnamese government who has a good command of English along with Hoàng Trung Hải, another vice prime minister. He is fluent in English and German.^[3]

Nguyễn Thiện Nhân's father is Nguyễn Thiện Thanh, a professor.

He replaced Đinh La Thăng as the Secretary of Communist Party of Vietnam of Ho Chi Minh City from May 10, 2017.