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Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
7th Prime Minister of Vietnam
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 April 2016
President	Trần Đại Quang
Deputy	Trương Hòa Bình
Preceded by	Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam
In office 2 August 2011 – 7 April 2016
Prime Minister	Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Preceded by	Nguyễn Sinh Hùng
Succeeded by	Trương Hòa Bình
Minister of the Government Office
In office 2 August 2007 – 3 August 2011
Prime Minister	Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Preceded by	Đoàn Mạnh Giao
Succeeded by	Vũ Đức Đam
Personal details
Born	(1954-07-20) 20 July 1954 (age 70) Quế Sơn, Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam (now Vietnam)
Political party	Communist Party of Vietnam
Spouse	Trần Thị Nguyệt Thu
Children	2
Alma mater	National Economics University National Academy of Public Administration National University of Singapore

Nguyễn Xuân Phúc (born 20 July 1954) is a Senior Vietnamese communist politician. He is the 7th (current) Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and is ranked 3rd in the country's 12th Politburo.^[1]

As a tradition in Vietnamese politics, Phúc is also a full member of the National Assembly, serving at its 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th terms. He was elected to the post of the National Assembly, nominated on April 8, 2016 by his predecessor, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, who retired from office. Phúc became a member of the Communist Party in Vietnam on November 12, 1983.

Phúc studied at the Hanoi National Economic University in economic management between 1973 and 1978, after which he studied administrative management at the Vietnam National Administrative Academy. From 1978 to 1979 he was employed by Quảng Nam-Dà Nang Economic Board. From 1980-1993, Phúc worked initially as an employee, before rising to deputy head of Quảng Nam - Đà Nẵng's People's Committee. Phúc then served in various roles including that of provincial president, director of government offices, before becoming deputy prime minister (2011-2016).

He was born on 20 July 1954, at the commune of Quế Phú, district of Quế Sơn, Quảng Nam Province. He took economic management at Hanoi National Economic University from 1973 to 1978. He was accepted to join the Communist Party of Vietnam on 12 May 1982, officially becoming a member of this party on 12 November 1983.^[2] From 1978 to 1979 he was among personnel at the Quảng Nam-Đà Nẵng Economic Board. From 1980–1993: Phúc was an employee, then deputy, rising to Chief of Office of the Quảng Nam – Đà Nẵng People's Committee. He studied administrative management at Vietnam National Administrative Academy.

His father Nguyễn Hiền was born in 1918, and worked for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam before 1954, heading north in accordance with the Geneva Accord. He and his mother and siblings stayed in their hometown, where they studied at the village school. His mother and siblings secretly worked for the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, and his sister was killed by the US military and the South Vietnamese government after a battle in 1965. In 1966, his mother was also killed. He lived with his sister in his hometown for a while, then secretly brought to North by the comrades of his parents in 1967.^[3]

From 1993 – 1996: he was the Director of Department of Planning and Investment of Quang Nam-Da Nang Province. He studied economic management at the National University of Singapore. However, there is no related document about Nguyễn Xuân Phúc as NUS's alumnus.

From 1997 – 2001: He became a permanent member of the Provincial party committee (17th, 18th session); Vice Chairman, then the first Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee of Quang Nam Province and Director of Industrial Zones Management Board of Quang Nam Province. He was a member of the provincial People's Council (6th session).

From 2001 – 2004: Vice Secretary of provincial party committee of Quang Nam Province, Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Nam Province (term from 1999 – 2004). He was a member of Vietnam's National Assembly (11th session), head of Quang Nam Province's members of the National Assembly, and a member of the Committee for Economy and Budget of the National Assembly (11th session).

From March 2006 to May 2006: Deputy Inspector General

From June 2006 to August 2007: Permanent Vice Minister of the Office of Government, member of the 11th National Assembly’s Economic and Budgetary Commission

From August 2007 to January 2011: Minister of the Office of Government, Head of the Prime Minister’s Task Force for Administrative Procedure Reform

From January 2011 to July 2011: Member of the Politburo of the 11th CPV Central Committee, Minister of the Office of Government

From August 2, 2011 to April 7, 2016: Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam

On April 7, 2016: He became the Prime Minister at the 11th working session of the 13th National Assembly

On May 31, 2017, President of the United States Donald Trump welcomed Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, Prime Minister of Vietnam to the Oval Office, to cut business deals and discussed the transfer of a Coast Guard cutter to a onetime enemy that the United States now views as a front-line defender against an expansionist China. It was first meeting with between Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Donald Trump, and Trump had warm words for his guest, despite having raised concerns within the Vietnamese government on both economic and security fronts early in his administration.^[4]

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