Nguyen Thien Nhan
Deputy Prime Minister, Socialist Republic of Vietnam
| Date of birth | June 12th, 1953, in Ca Mau Province |
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| Hometown | Phuong Tra Commune, Chau Thanh District, Tra Vinh Province |
| Foreign Language | English, German |
| Career | |
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| Since April 2006 | Member of Central Committee of Communist Party of Vietnam. |
| Since July 2006 | Minister of Education and Training. |
| Since May 2007 | Member of the 12th National Assembly of Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
| Since August 2007 | Deputy Prime Minister, Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| 1997 - 2002 | Member of the 10th National Assembly of Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Member of Science, Technology and Environment Committee of National Assembly. |
| 2001 - June 2006 | Permanent Vice Chairman of People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. |
| 1999 - 2001 | Vice Chairman of People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. |
| 1997 - 1999 | Director of Science, Technology and Environment Department of Ho Chi Minh City. |
| 1988 - 1990 | Education attaché, Vietnam's Embassy to the Democratic Republic of Germany. |
| 1997 - 2006 | Member of National Committee of Science and Technology Policy. |
Experience |
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| 2002 | Economic Professor, University of Technology of Hochiminh City. |
| 1993 - 2006 | University of Technology of Hochiminh City. |
| 1996 | Vice President of University of Technology of Hochiminh City, Associate Professor of Economics. |
| 1995 | Head of Industrial Management Division, Lecturer of Economics, Project management assessment and Business Strategy. |
| 1995 - 1997 | Joined the Fulbright Economics Training, University of Economics of Ho Chi Minh City, Lecturer of Macroeconomics, Project management assessment and Public finance. |
| 1993 - 2005 | Author of 29 articles published on economic journals. Author of "Microeconomic" published in 1993 and 2002; "Asia's Economic and Financial Crisis 1997 - 1999" published in 2002 by National University of Ho Chi Minh City Publishers. |
Education |
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| 2003 | Harvard University, Massachusetts, US. John F. Kennedy School of Governance. Program on Science, Technology and Innovation. |
| 1998 | Harvard University, Massachusetts, US. Harvard International Development Institute Program on Global Financial Crisis and Reform |
| 1995 | Harvard University, Massachusetts, US. Harvard International Development Institute Program on Project Investment Assessment And Management. Oregon University, Oregon, The United States (Fulbright Scholarship). Master of Public governance; professional: Public finance. |
| 1979 | Magderburg University of Technology, Democratic Republic of Germany. Doctor of cybernetics |
| 1976 | Magderburg University of Technology, Democratic Republic of Germany. Bachelor of cybernetics |
