Education and academic degrees:

- 1980: Hanoi University of Education No 2

- 1996: Hanoi University of Education

- 1998: Certificate for Ad-Hoc of Education Management, The University of Reading, UK

- 2005: Certificate for University Leadership and Management, Ministry of Foreign Affaire of Singapore and the Hanns Seidel Foundation

Positions:

- Deputy Director General, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Training: 2007 – 2013
- Expert, Department of Postgraduate Education – now it is Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Training: 1982 – 2007

Some special activities in the education area:

- 1997 – 1998: TCT Fellows Scholarships, the British Council, UK

- 2000 – 2007: Member of Master Students Selection Board, Teacher Training Project, Loan No. 1718-VIE(SF).

- 2000 – 2009: Member of Secretariat, Operation Committee of Government Scholarships Project.

- 2002 – 2006: Member of Master Students Selection Board, Primary Teacher Development Project, WB\DFID.

- 2003 – 2007: Member of Secretariat, Preparation Project Unit for the Second Higher Education Project, funded by the World Bank loan.

- 2004 – 2005: Chief of Secretariat, Preparation Unit for GOV’s Higher Education Reform Agenda 2006-2020.

- 2005: Study tour on Millennium Science Initiative in Brazil, Chile and USA.

- 2006: Study tour on World Class University in Germany and USA.

- 2007: Member of the Vietnam President’s Delegation to visit to the United State and participate to the Forum “Universities as Engines of Development: A Forum for the President of Vietnam”, The New School, New York, USA.

- 2007 – 2009: Standing Vice-Chairman of Steering Join Committee of the Vietnam Netherlands Higher Education Project. Governance Co-ordinator of the Vietnam; Second Higher Education Project (an World Bank Project).

- 2008 – present: Member of the Executive Boards of the Advanced Program Project.

- 2010 – present: Member of the Executive Boards of the Doctoral Training Project for lecturers at Vietnam universities and colleges in the period 2010 – 2020. Deputy Director of PMU on Excellent Universities Establishing

Publications:

1. On the tautness of complex spaces. Global Analysis, 5(1992), 1-12.

2. With Do Duc Thai: A note on the Kobayashi pseudo-distance and the tautness of holomorphic fiber bundles, Ann. Polon. Math. LVIII. 1(1993), 1-5.

3. Sur la conversité des espaces analytiques Banachiques. Paper presented at the International Vietnamese – Franc Workshop on “Complex Analysis of Multi-variables and Singulars’ topo”, Dalat, 22 August – 2 September 1994

4. Generalization of the Riemann theorem on the extension of bounded holomorphics maps, Proceedings, Satellite Workshop Numerical Analysis & Mechanic of Continuos Media. HCM City, 27-29 Dec 1995 , 41-45.

5. With Do Duc Thai: On the tautness and complete hyperbolicity. Presented at the colloquium “Real and Complex Analysis”, Hanoi, 21 December 2000

6. With Arian van Staa: Increasing responsiveness of higher education: first experiences of a Vietnam-Netherlands cooperation project. Ann. Paper presented at the UKFIET conference, Oxford UK 11 – 13 September 2007.

7. Project of 20.000 PhDs training for Vietnam Higher Education Institutions’ teaching staff. Presentation at the Vietnam – New Zealand Education Forum, 5 Dec. 2007..

8. The objectives, goals and status of the Advanced Engineering and Technology Programs collaborate with U.S. Universities.Presentation at the 2007 Engineering and Technology Curriculum Development Workshop, Hanoi University of Technology, 27-28 Dec. 2007.

9. Vietnam Higher Education – Reform for the Nation’s Development. Presentation at the Asia-Pacific Sub-regional Preparatory Conference for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education “Facing Global and Local Challenges: the New Dynamics for Higher Education”, , Macao SAR, PR China, 24-26 September 2008.

10. Current Vietnam Higher Education Challenges. Presentation at the conference Vietnamese-France “Higher Education and diversity” – Hanoi, 30-31, March 2009..

11. Key orientations to develop Vietnam’s Higher Education to 2020. Presentation at the Malaysia-Vietnam workshop on higher education and developing human capital, Hanoi, June 23-24, 2009.

12. Higher Education Research Policy and Management in Vietnam. Presentation at the First Conference on Pioneering ASEAN Research Clusters Bangkok , 26 – 27 November 2010.

13. Vietnam Higher Education Strategy Orientations. Presentation at the Thai Education Exhibition, Ho Chi Minh City, 15 May 2010.

14. The current initiatives by Vietnamese Government in Higher Education Sector. Presentation at the 2nd Vietnam-Japan University Presidents’ Conference, 12-13 March 2011.

15. University Research Management in Vietnam. Presentation at 7th Back-to-Back Regional Seminar, Mandalay, Myanmar, 16 September 2011

16. Vietnam Higher Education at a glance. Presentation at the Vietnamese-Dane Higher Education Conference, Hanoi 28-29 November 2011..

17. Privatization of Higher Education in Vietnam. Presentation at the South-East Asia Higher Education Forum, Jakarta, 14 May 2012..

18. Vietnam Higher Education overview and future direction. Presentation at the Meet Vietnam-Japan, Tokyo 13 September 2012.

19. Dao Hien Chi: Model of Research University in Vietnam (Mô hình đại học nghiên cứu ở Việt Nam), Hoạt động khoa học Journal. 10(1992), 44-47.