Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha

- Date of birth: April 19, 1963  

- Native land: Kim Loc commune, Can Loc district, Ha Tinh province

- Date of Party admission: July, 24, 1990; date of official membership: July 24, 1991  

- Education: Ph.D

- Alternate member of the Party Central Committee  (11^th tenure)

- Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (12^th, 13^th tenures)

- Deputy to the National Assembly (14th tenure)   

Career Records

September, 1996 – November, 1998: worked at the Environment Department under the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment

December, 1998 – April, 2002: Deputy Manager, Manager of the Policy and  Laws Office under the  Environment Department (the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment)

May, 2002 – December, 2003: Deputy Director of the Environment Department (the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment)

January, 2004 – September, 2005: Acting Director, then Director of the Environmental Protection Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

October, 2005 – June, 2008:  Director of the Environmental Protection Department, Deputy General Director of Environment Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

July, 2008 – December, 2008: Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment

January, 2009 – June, 2010: Deputy Secretary of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Provincial People’s Committee

July, 2010 – April, 2016: Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment

April, 2016 – January 2023: Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment.

January 2023 – present: Deputy Prime Minister

Management areas

a) To oversee and direct the following areas:

- Transport, traffic order and safety

- Construction

- Natural resources and environment, climate change adaption

- Agriculture and rural development, new rural areas; flood and storm prevention and control, search and rescue

- National planning scheme, regional planning schemes, and provincial planning schemes

- Key national projects/works and essential construction investment projects

- Economic zones, industrial zones, export processing zones

- General mechanisms and policies on bidding

- To approve investment policies for investment projects in assigned management areas

b) To oversee and direct the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Construction, Ministry of National Resources and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences, Ha Noi National University, Ho Chi Minh City National University.

c) Chairman of National Planning Council; Chairman of National Council on Water Resources; Chairman of Viet Nam-Russia Inter-governmental Sub-committee; Chairman of National Traffic Safety Committee; Chairman of National Civil Aviation Security Committee; Chairman of Viet Nam Mekong Commission; Head of the Central Steering Committee for housing and real estate market; Head of National Steering Committee for green growth; Head of Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control; Chairman of Councils, National Committees in assigned management areas.