Senior Lieutenant in 1982. 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 a number of efforts in reforming the Vietnamese education system, widely supported by the Vietnamese public. He is also one of the senior officials in the Vietnamese government who has a good command of English along with Hoàng Trung Hải, another vice prime minister. Mr. Nhan is fluent in both English and German. He replaced Đinh La Thăng as the Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam for Ho Chi Minh City beginning on 10 May 2017. On the evening of 17 October 2020, Nguyen Van Nen was elected Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee for the term of 2020–2025, replacing Nguyen Thien Nhan. Mr. Nguyen Thien Nhan was assigned by the Politburo to continue to monitor and direct the HCMC Party Committee until the end of the 13th National Party Congress (scheduled to take place in January 2021). References External links Deputy Prime Ministers of Vietnam Members of the 11th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam Members of the 12th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam Members of the 10th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Members of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Members of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Government ministers of Vietnam 1953 births University of Oregon alumni Harvard University alumni Living people People from Cà Mau Province Vietnamese economists Members of the National Assembly (Vietnam) Vietnamese educators