Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long

- Date of birth: September 23, 1963  

- Native land: Quang Tho commune, Quang Xuong district, Thanh Hoa province  

- Date of Party admission: April 6, 1991; date of official membership: July 2, 1992  

- Education: PhD in Laws

- Political theory: Senior  

- Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (12th tenure)

- Deputy to the National Assembly (14th tenure)   

Career records:

November, 1987 – December, 1990: Staff of the Department on International Cooperation under the Ministry of Justice;

December, 1990 – December, 1991: Staff of the Mekong River Commission’s Secretariat (Bangkok, Thailand);

December, 1991 – April, 2003: Staff of the Department on International Cooperation, Secretary of the Justice Minister under the Ministry of Justice; studied MA and PhD abroad;

April, 2003 – December, 2008: Staff, then Deputy Manager of the Department on International Cooperation under the Ministry of Justice;

December, 2008 – October, 2011: Manager of the Department on Common Issues on Law Building, under the Ministry of Justice;

October, 2011 – March, 2014: Deputy Minister of Justice

April, 2014 – September, 2015: Secretary of the Ha Tinh Provincial Party Committee  

September, 2015 – April, 2016: Deputy Minister of Justice  

April, 2016 – present: Minister of Justice.

Management areas:

a) To oversee and direct the following areas:

- Institutional building, building of law-governed socialist State

- International dispute settlement

- Education and vocational training

- Labor, employment and social affairs

- Culture, sports and tourism

- Healthcare, population, family and children affairs

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

b) To oversee and direct the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

c) Chairman of National Council for Education and Human Resource Development, Chairman of Central Council for Defense-Security Education; Chairman of National Council for Sustainable Development and Competitiveness Improvement, Head of State Steering Committee for Tourism, Head of Central Inter-disciplinary Steering Committee on Food Safety; Chairman of National Committee for AIDS, Drug and Prostitution Prevention and Control, Chairman of Councils for Appraisal of Sectoral Planning Schemes under assigned management areas.