Mr. Bui Quang Vinh currently serves as Vietnam’s Minister of Planning and Investment, a position he has held since July 2011. The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) is responsible for preparation of Vietnam’s development strategies and plans, public investment planning, some aspects of SOE reforms, poverty reduction, and oversight and coordination of ODA. Mr. Bui Quang Vinh Vinh is also a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam’s Communist Party and of Vietnam’s 13th National Assembly. He served as MPI’s Vice Minister from 2010. During 1999-2010 he was Chairman and Party Secretary of Vietnam’s Lao Cai Province in the northern part of Vietnam. He previously held various other positions there and in the old Hoang Lien Son Province. Born in Hanoi in 1953, the Minister earned an engineering degree from Vietnam’s University of Agriculture in 1975 and studied at the Agriculture Economic Institute in Moscow.
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