Nguyễn Thiện Nhân (born 12 June 1953) is a

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economist, engineer, professor and politician. He is currently a member of the

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representing

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, where he served as its party secretary (''de facto'' mayor) from 2017 until his retirement in 2020. A member of the 11th and

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Politburo of the Communist Party, he previously served as

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of the

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from 2013 to 2017 and as

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and Minister of Education during

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (born 17 November 1949) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam from 2006 to 2016. He was confirmed by the National Assembly on 27 June 2006, having been nominated by his predecessor, Phan Văn ...

's premiership.Approval of the new members in the Cabinet on August 2, 2007, Người Lao Động News
/ref> Prior to entering national politics, he worked as a

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in the

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before pivoting to

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and then serving in the municipal administration of Ho Chi Minh City, where he was its

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from 2001 to 2006. He received a BS and a PhD in

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from the

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, an

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from the

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as a

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, and had studied at

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and the Military Medical Academy of Vietnam.

Early life and career

Nguyễn Thiện Nhân was born on 12 June 1953 in Cà Mau, Vietnam. His family is originally from Chau Thanh,

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. His father Nguyễn Thiện Thành was a professor and a doctor. His father was an intellectual who was active in the

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. Under the provisions of the Geneva Accords of 1954, his father brought his family to the North to live in the part of Vietnam under the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Encouraged by his father, after high school, in June 1970, he enlisted in the

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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'') in

. He was commissioned a

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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

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. He was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1980, Senior Lieutenant in 1982. In 1993, he studied and earned an MPA of governance at the

and a course of Investment Project Assessment at

, USA. He has been the professor at

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (abbreviation: HCMUT vi, Trường Đại học Bách khoa, Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) is a member of Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City and a leading university in t ...

. Nguyễn Thiện Nhân is known for a number of efforts in reforming the Vietnamese education system, widely supported by the Vietnamese public. He is also one of the senior officials in the Vietnamese government who has a good command of English along with

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, another vice prime minister. Mr. Nhan is fluent in both English and German. He replaced Đinh La Thăng as the Secretary of the

for

beginning on 10 May 2017. On the evening of 17 October 2020, Nguyen Van Nen was elected Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee for the term of 2020–2025, replacing Nguyen Thien Nhan. Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan was assigned by the Politburo to continue to monitor and direct the HCMC Party Committee until the end of the 13th National Party Congress (scheduled to take place in January 2021).HCMC gets new Party Secretary
– Vietnam Express(18 October 2020)

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