Biography of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

WORKING PROCESS

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
December 1967 - July 1968
Staff of the Documentation Department of the Study Magazine (now the Communist Magazine)
August 1968 - August 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)
August 1973 - April 1976
Postgraduate student in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School (now the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics), Party Cell Member
May 1976 - August 1980
Editor of the Party Building Department, Communist Magazine, Deputy Secretary of the Party Cell
September 1980 - August 1981
Studied Russian at Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School (now Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics)
September 1981 - July 1983
Intern and thesis defense of Associate Professor (now Doctor) of the Department of Party Building, Academy of Social Sciences of the Soviet Union
August 1983 - February 1989
Deputy Head of Party Building Committee (October 1983), Head of Party Building Committee, 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)
March 1989 - August 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)
January 1994 - present
Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, terms VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII
August 1996 - February 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
December 1997 - present
Member of the Politburo of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, terms VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII
February 1998 - January 2000
In charge of the Party's Ideological-Cultural and Scientific Work
August 1999 - April 2001
Join the Politburo Standing Committee
March 1998 - August 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)
January 2000 - June 2006
Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, terms XII, XIII, XIV
May 2002 - present
National Assembly Delegate of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th terms
June 2006 - July 2011
Secretary of the National Assembly Party Delegation, Chairman of the 11th and 12th National Assembly, Member of the National Defense and Security Council
January 2011 - present
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, 11th, 12th, 13th terms; Secretary of the Central Military Commission; Head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption (from February 2013) (now the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption and Negative Acts); Member of the Standing Committee of the Central Public Security Party Committee (from 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)
February 2, 2023
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was awarded the 55-year Party badge.
July 18, 2024
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was awarded the Gold Star Order for his great and especially outstanding contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and nation.
July 19, 2024
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong passed away.