Nguyễn Thị Doan (born 8 November 1951) is a Vietnamese educator, former legislator and Vietnamese politician, who served as

Vice President of Vietnam The vice president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (), known as the deputy chairman of the Council of State () from 1981 to 1992, is the deputy head of state of the Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The vice president is appointed on t ...

from 2007 to 2016. Nguyễn Thị Doan is a member of the

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, and a deputy to the

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for

Hà Nam Province Hà is a Vietnamese given name, male or female, meaning "river". Hà is a Vietnamese 'surname' (during French colonialism). The name is transliterated as He in Chinese and Ha in Korean. Ha is the anglicized variation of the surname Hà. It is ...

. Nguyễn Thị Doan is a former university professor of economics. The National Assembly elected her as the Vice President, and she served from 2007 to 2016. Nguyễn Thị Doan was born on November 1, 1951, in the northern province of

Hà Nam Hà is a Vietnamese given name, male or female, meaning "river". Hà is a Vietnamese 'surname' (during French colonialism). The name is transliterated as He in Chinese and Ha in Korean. Ha is the anglicized variation of the surname Hà. It is ...

. She entered Hanoi University of Commerce for her degree in economics in 1977 and graduated in 1979. In the same year, Mrs. Doan became a lecturer of the university. She went to Bulgaria (Ph.D. in economics in

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) and France (Ph.D. in business administration) for graduate studies. In 1982, she joined the

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. Shortly after returning to Vietnam, she was appointed as the Rector of Hanoi University of Commerce. At the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in June 1996, Nguyễn Thị Doan was elected to the Party's Central Committee and became a member of the Central Committee's Supervisory Commission three years later. She was re-elected to the Party's Central Committee again in the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served as the Permanent Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Commission. She was named Vice-President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the first session of the Twelfth National Assembly on July 25, 2007. As of September 22,

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, she is currently the Chairwoman of the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education.

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