Nguyen Phu Trong
| Nguyễn Phú Trọng | |
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| General Secretary of the Communist Party | |
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Assumed office 19 January 2011 |
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| President |
Trương Tấn Sang Trần Đại Quang |
| Prime Minister |
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng Nguyễn Xuân Phúc |
| Preceded by | Nông Đức Mạnh |
| Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party | |
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Assumed office 19 January 2011 |
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| Deputy | Phùng Quang Thanh |
| Preceded by | Nông Đức Mạnh |
| Chairman of the National Assembly | |
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In office 26 June 2006 – 23 July 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Nguyễn Văn An |
| Succeeded by | Nguyễn Sinh Hùng |
| Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee | |
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In office January 2000 – 26 June 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Lê Xuân Tùng |
| Succeeded by | Phạm Quang Nghị |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
14 April 1944 Hanoi, French Indochina (now Vietnam) |
| Political party | Communist Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Hanoi National Academy of Public Administration Russian Academy of Sciences |
Nguyễn Phú Trọng (born 14 April 1944) is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, elected at the party's 11th National Congress on 19 January 2011 and re-elected at the 12th National Congress in 2016. Trong heads the party's Secretariat, and is the Secretary of the Central Military Commission, in addition to being the de facto head of the Politburo, the highest decision-making body in Vietnam, which currently makes him the most powerful person in Vietnam.
Trọng was born in Đông Hội Commune, Đông Anh District, Hanoi. His official biography gives his family background only as "poor peasant". He studied philology at Vietnam National University, Hanoi from 1963 to 1967. Trọng officially joined the Communist Party in December 1968. He worked for the Tạp chí Cộng Sản (Communist Review), the theoretical and political agency of the Communist Party of Vietnam (formerly the "Labor Party"), in the periods of 1967–73, 1976–80, and 1983–96. From 1991 to 1996, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Tạp chí Cộng Sản.
Trọng went to the Soviet Union in 1981 to study at the Academy of Social Sciences and received a Candidate of Sciences degree in history in 1983. In 1998, Trọng entered the party section devoted to political work, making him one of the most prominent Vietnamese political theoreticians, heading the CPVCC's Theoretical Council in charge of the Party's theoretical work from 2001 to 2006.
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