# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nguyen-thien-nhan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:05:31.368Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nguyen-thien-nhan"
name: "Nguyen Thien Nhan"
slug: "nguyen-thien-nhan"
description: "Nguyễn Thiện Nhân is a Vietnamese economist, engineer, professor and politician. He is currently a member of the National Assembly representing Ho Chi Minh City, where he served as its party secretary from 2017 until his retirement in 2020. A member of the 11th and 12th Politburo of the Communist Party, he previously served as Chairman of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front from 2013 to 2017 and as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education during Nguyễn Tấn Dũng's premiership. Prior to entering national politics, he worked as a systems engineer in the military before pivoting to academia and then serving in the municipal administration of Ho Chi Minh City, where he was its deputy mayor from 2001 to 2006. He received a BS and a PhD in Cybernetics from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in East Germany and the Military Medical Academy of Vietnam."
tagline: "Vietnamese politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mr._Nguyen_Thien_Nhan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1953-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.685824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thi%E1%BB%87n_Nh%C3%A2n"
    title: "Nguyễn Thiện Nhân"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thi%E1%BB%87n_Nh%C3%A2n"
    title: "Nguyễn Thiện Nhân"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thi%E1%BB%87n_Nh%C3%A2n"
    title: "Nguyễn Thiện Nhân"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E5%96%84%E4%BB%81"
    title: "阮善仁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thi%E1%BB%87n_Nh%C3%A2n"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7022980"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump