The newly-elected Prime Minister, aged 56, will replace his predecessor Pham Minh Chinh to serve a five-year term, from 2026 to 2031.

Politburo member  and Chairman of the Central Organization
Commission of the 14th Party Central Committee Le Minh Hung was
unanimously elected as new Prime Minister of Vietnam on April 7 at the first
session of the 16th National Assembly.

Mr. Le Minh Hung, aged 56, will replace his predecessor Pham
Minh Chinh to serve a five-year term, from 2026 to 2031.

Below is the brief biography of Prime Minister Le Minh Hung,
as released by the Government News:

Date of birth: December 11, 1970

Native land: Tu My Commune, Ha Tinh province

Ethnicity: Kinh

Date of Party admission: August 21, 2000

Education: Master’s Degree in Public Policy, Bachelor’s
Degree in French Language

Major positions:

– Politburo member, 13th tenure (since May 2024) and 14th
tenure

– Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
of Viet Nam, 13th and 14th tenures

– Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Viet Nam (12th, 13th, and 14th tenures)

– Chairman of the Central Organization Commission (since May
2024)

– Vice Chairman of the Central Steering Committee for
Prevention and Combat of Corruption, Wastefulness, and Negative Phenomena

– Chairman of the Viet Nam-Japan Friendship
Parliamentarians’ Group

– Deputy of the 15th and 16th National Assembly

Political career

– From October 1993 to January 1998:

– Staff at the Department of International Cooperation, the
State Bank of Viet Nam; study at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
in China (from March 1996-June 1996) and Saitama University in Japan (from
October 1996-September 1997).

– From February 1998
to February 2002:  Deputy Division Head,
Division Head, Department of International Cooperation, the State Bank of Vietnam

– From March 2002 to
December 2009: Vice Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation,
the State Bank of Vietnam.

–  From January 2010
to October 2011: Member of the Party Committee of the State Bank of Vietnam,
Director-General of the Personnel Department, the State Bank of Vietnam.

– From October 2011 to October 2014: Member of the Party
Committee of the State Bank of Vietnam, Vice Governor of the State Bank of
Vietnam.

– From November 2014
to January 2016: Vice Chairman of the Office of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Vietnam; Elected to the 12th Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Vietnam at the 12th National Party Congress.

– From January 2016
to April 2016: Member of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Viet Nam, Vice Chairman of the Office of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of Vietnam.

– From April 2016 to
October 2020: Member of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Vietnam, Secretary of the Party Committee and Governor of the State Bank of
Vietnam.

– From October 2020 to January 2021: Member of the 12th
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Chairman of the Office of
the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

– From January 2021
to May 2024: Secretary of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Vietnam, Chairman of the Office of the Party Central Committee, member of the
Central Steering Committee for Prevention and Combat of Corruption and Negative
Phenomena (since November 2021), deputy of the 15th National Assembly (since
July 2021).

– From May 2024 to June 2024: Politburo member, Secretary of
the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Chairman of the
Central Organization Commission, Chairman of the Office of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, deputy of the 15th National
Assembly.

–  From June 2024 to
June 2025: Politburo member, Secretary of the 13th Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Vietnam, Chairman of the Central Organization Commission,
deputy of the 15th National Assembly, 
Chairman of the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group, Vice
Chairman of the Central Steering Committee for Prevention and Combat of
Corruption, Wastefulness, and Negative Phenomena (since October 2024), and
member of the National Election Council (since June 2025).

– On January 22,
2026: Elected as member of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Viet Nam at the 14th National Party Congress.

– On January 23,
2026: Elected as member of the Politburo at the first plenum of the 14th
Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

– On January 30, 2026: Assigned to join the Secretariat.

– In March 2026: Elected as deputy to the 16th National
Assembly.

– On April 7, 2026: Elected as Prime Minister of the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the first working session of the 16th National
Assembly.

VGP-Ha Le