Education
Harvard University; University of Oregon.
member of the National Assembly of Vietnam
Harvard University; University of Oregon.
He was a Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam between 2007 and 2013, and was Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam between 2006 and 2010. 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, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam.
He got a Doctor of Philosophy in cybernetics at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in East Germany in 1979.
In 1993, he studied and earned an Master of Public Administration of governance at the University of Oregon and a course of Investment Project Assessment at Harvard University, United States of America. 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. He is fluent in English and German.
Nguyễn Thiện Nhân"s father is Nguyễn Thiện Thanh, a professor
He is a member of the 11th Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam.