Nguyen Thien Nhan

Who is Nguyen Thien Nhan?

Nguyễn Thiện Nhân, is President of Vietnam Fatherland Front. He is also a Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam and was Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam. He is a member of 11th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam. He had been the 1st vice mayor of Ho Chi Minh City before being appointed Minister of Education on June 28, 2006, by Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng. He was appointed by the National Assembly, upon recommendation of Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Vice Prime Minister of Vietnam. He got a PhD in cybernetics at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in East Germany in 1979. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

The Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg was founded in 1993 and is one of the youngest German universities. It was formed in a merger of the existing Technical University, the Teacher Training College and the Medical School.

In 1993, he studied and earned an MPA of governance at the University of Oregon and a course of Investment Project Assessment at Harvard University, USA. He has been the professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. Nguyễn Thiện Nhân is known for some efforts in reform of Vietnamese education system, widely supported by the Vietnamese public. He is also one of the high senior officials in Vietnamese government who has a good command of English along with Hoàng Trung Hải, another vice prime minister.