Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, Acting Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung

I. Personal information

Date of birth: 27 April 1961

Status: Married with two children

Education: - PhD in Law (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences);

- Master of Arts in International Law and Diplomacy (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, 1993-1995).

II. Work experience

Oct 1982 - Feb 1998:	Officer, General Political Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA); Third Secretary, Viet Nam’s Permanent Mission to the UN (New York, USA); Officer, then Assistant Director General (DG), International Organisations Department, MOFA.
Feb 1998 - Nov 2010:	Member of MOFA’s Party Committee; Deputy DG, acting DG, then DG of International Organisations Department, MOFA; Minister-Counsellor, Deputy Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the UN (New York, USA).
Dec 2010 - Jul 2011:	Member of MOFA’s Party Committee; Deputy Foreign Minister.
Jul 2011 - Oct 2014:	Deputy Foreign Minister, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations.
Oct 2014 - Apr 2016:	Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (from 01/2016); Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of South East Asia, South Asia, South Pacific, ASEAN; Head of ASEAN SOM; President of Viet Nam National Commission for UNESCO.
Apr 2016 - Mar 2021	Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam; Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of departments for International Organizations, North East Asia, Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO Affairs, International Law and Treaties, Emulation-Commendation and Diplomatic Tradition, democracy and human rights, development cooperation in the Mekong region; Head of National Border Committee, MOFA; President of Viet Nam National Commission for UNESCO.
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025	Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (from October 2023); Chairman of the Commission for External Relations of the Communist Party of Viet Nam; Deputy to the National Assembly of Viet Nam (from June 2021).
Feb 2025 - Aug 2025	Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam; Chief of Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam; Deputy to the National Assembly of Viet Nam.
Aug 2025 - present:	Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam; Acting Foreign Minister; Deputy to the National Assembly of Viet Nam.

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