Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh (Source: hanoitimes.vn)
Born in Ba Vi district of Hanoi, Chu Ngoc Anh, 56, holds a Ph.D. degree and assumed various important positions in the Party and the Government.
From 1988 to 1995, he was a lecturer at the Institute for Technical Physics under the Ha Noi University of Science and Technology.
From 1995 to 1997 he worked at the Science and Technology Advances Application Company – MITEC under the Ministry of Industry and Environment and the Institute of Posts and Telecommunications Technology under the General Department of Posts.
From 1997 to 2003, he was deputy manager, then manager of the Institute of Posts and Telecommunications Technology under the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group.
In 2003 – 2010 he was staff, then Deputy Head of the Department on High-tech; Head of the Technology Application and Development Department under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
From August 2010 to January, 2011, he was Deputy Minister of Science and Technology cum Head of the Technology Application and Development Department.
From January 2011 through March, 2013, he was an alternate member of the 11th Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology.
From May 2013 to September 2015, he was Deputy Secretary of the Phu Tho Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Phu Tho Provincial People’s Committee.
From September 2015 to April 2016, he was Deputy Minister of Science and Technology.
In April 2014, he was a member of the 12th Party Central Committee. Then, from April 2016 he was the Minister of Science and Technology.
In September 2020, the Politburo assigned Anh to hold the position of Vice Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee for 2015-2020. He later was elected to the position of Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee for 2016-2021 by the municipal People’s Council.
The municipal People’s Council also voted for six vice-chairmen of the city People’s Council, including Le Hong Son, Nguyen Trong Dong, Duong Duc Tuan, Ha Minh Hai, Nguyen Manh Quyen, and Chu Xuan Dung./.