Biography of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

WORK HISTORY

1957 - 1963
Studying at Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary and High School, Gia Lam, Hanoi
1963 - 1967
Student of Faculty of Literature, Hanoi University of Science
12/1967 - 7/1968
Staff of the Learning Magazine Documentation Department (now Communist Magazine)
8/1968 - 8/1973
Editor of the Party Building Department, Communist Magazine; interned in Thanh Oai district, Ha Tay province (1971). Secretary of the Communist Magazine Youth Union (1969-1973)
8/1973 - 4/1976
Postgraduate student in Economics and Politics at Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School (now Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics), Party Cell Member
5/1976 - 8/1980
Editor of Party Building Department, Communist Magazine, Deputy Secretary of Party Cell
9/1980 - 8/1981
Studied Russian at Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School (now Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics)
9/1981 - 7/1983
Intern and thesis defense of Associate Professor (now Doctor) of the Department of Party Building, Academy of Social Sciences of the Soviet Union
8/1983 - 2/1989
Deputy Head of Party Building Department (October 1983), Head of Party Building Department, Communist Magazine (September 1987); Deputy Secretary of Party Committee (July 1985 - December 1988) then Secretary of Party Committee of Communist Magazine Agency (December 1988 - December 1991)
3/1989 - 8/1996
Member of the Editorial Board (March 1989 - April 1990), Deputy Editor-in-Chief (May 1990 - July 1991), Editor-in-Chief of Communist Magazine (August 1991 - August 1996)
1/1994 - present
Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, terms VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII
8/1996 - 2/1998
Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, concurrently Head of the University Personnel Committee and directly in charge of the Hanoi Party Committee's Propaganda Department
12/1997 - present
Member of the Politburo of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, terms VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII
2/1998 - 1/2000
In charge of the Party's Ideological-Cultural and Scientific Work
8/1999 - 4/2001
Join the Politburo Standing Committee
3/1998 - 8/2006
Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council (March 1998 - November 2001); Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, in charge of the Party's theoretical work (November 2001 - August 2006)
1/2000 - 6/2006
Secretary of Hanoi Party Committee, terms XII, XIII, XIV
5/2002 - present
National Assembly Delegate of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th terms
6/2006 - 7/2011
Secretary of the National Assembly Party Delegation, Chairman of the 11th and 12th National Assembly, Member of the National Defense and Security Council
1/2011 - present
General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, 11th, 12th, 13th tenure; Secretary of the Central Military Commission; Head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption (since February 2013) (now the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption and Negative Action); member of the Standing Committee of the Central Public Security Party Committee (since August 2016); President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Chairman of the National Defense and Security Council, term 2016-2021 (October 23, 2018 - April 2, 2021); Honorary President of the Vietnam Red Cross Society (2019-2022)
2/2/2023
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was awarded the 55-year Party badge.
7/18/2024
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was awarded the Gold Star Order for his great and outstanding contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and nation.
7/19/2024
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong passed away.