Party Central Committee Secretary Nguyen Xuan Thang holds the position of Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council

According to VNA, on March 2, at the Party Central Committee Headquarters, the Politburo met under the chairmanship of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to give opinions on personnel work.

The Politburo decided: Mr. Dinh The Huynh, Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council for the 2016-2021 term, will cease to hold the position of Standing member of the Secretariat and Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council for the 2016-2021 term to continue long-term treatment.

At the same time, the Politburo decided: Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Vice Chairman in charge of the Central Theoretical Council, holds the position of Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council for the 2016-2021 term.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang was born on February 18, 1957 in Thanh Chuong, Nghe An. He holds the title of Professor and a PhD in Economics.

He was a research fellow at the MEMO Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Returning to Vietnam in 1995, he was appointed as Head of Department, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Director and Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.

From 2007 to 2011, he was appointed Vice President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.

Since 2011, he has been President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (now the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences).

In April 2016, he resigned as President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences to become Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang is a member of the 11th and 12th Central Executive Committee. At the 6th Central Executive Committee meeting (October 2017), he was elected to the 12th Secretariat.