Re-elected NA chairman's biography
Nguyen Van An was re-elected chairman of Vietnam's National Assembly (eleventh Legislature). Following is his brief biography:
Nguyen Van An was born on October 1, 1937 into a poor peasant family in My Tan commune, Nam Dinh city, capital of the same province. He was a former worker at a power plant in Hanoi.
Mr An participated in the revolutionary movement from June 1954 and joined the Communist Party of Vietnam on August 14, 1959.
He obtained a diploma in electrical engineering as well as a diploma of high-level political theory. He can speak Russian, English and French.
- 1954-1960: Worked in the Hanoi power plant.
- 1962-1967: Studied at university in Donetsk city of Ukraine.
- 1967-1969: Worked at Construction site 8438 of the Hanoi Electricity Company.
- 1970-1973: Deputy division director, secretary of a Party cell, member of the Party committee and head of its information and training board of the third electricity department, and vice-director of the Nam Ha provincial electricity company. In 1972, he was elected to the position of alternate member of the Nam Dinh provincial Party Committee.
- 1974-1976: Received training at the high-level Nguyen Ai Quoc Party school.
- 1976-1980: Member of the Executive Committee of the provincial Party Committee, head of its Information and Training Department, vice-chairman of the People's Committee of Ha Nam Ninh province and secretary of Nam Dinh city's Party Committee.
- From November 1980-1987: Deputy secretary of the provincial Party Committee and chairman of the People's Committee of Ha Nam Ninh province. He was elected deputy of the National Assembly (seventh Legislature) and also member of its Economic, Planning and Budgetary Committee.
He was elected to the position of alternate member of the Party Central Committee (fifth Congress), secretary of the Ha Nam Ninh provincial Party Committee (1982). Mr An was re-elected as member of the Party Central Committee (sixth Congress) (December 1986).
- 1987-June 1996: Deputy chief of the Organisational and Personnel Commission of the Party Central Committee and member of the Party Central Committee (seventh Congress) (June 1991).
- From June 1996 to present: He was elected as member to the Party Central Committee at the Eighth National Party Congress and elected by the Party Central Committee to serve on the Politburo and act as chief of the Organisational and Personnel Commission of the Party Central Committee. He was also elected deputy of the National Assembly (tenth Legislature).
At the Ninth National Party Congress (April 2001), he was re-elected to the Party Central Committee and also elected by the Party Central Committee to the Politburo and to the positions of secretary of the Party Central Committee and chief of its Organisational and Personnel Commission.
Mr An was elected chairman of the National Assembly (tenth Legislature) at its ninth session in June 2001.
He stopped working as secretary of the Party Central Committee and chief of its Organisational and Personnel Commission.
He was elected as deputy of the National Assembly (eleventh Legislature) in May 2002
At the first session of the National Assembly, Mr An was re-elected chairman of the National Assembly (July, 2002).
