Full name:                   Ly Duc Trung

Date of Birth:              26 November 1977

Home town:                Lai Yen Commune, Hoai Duc District, Ha Noi

Education:                   Master of Diplomacy and Trade

Foreign Language(s):  English

Family:                        Married

• April 2003 - September 2005: Desk Officer, Interpretation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• October 2005 - February 2006: Attended the Conference Interpreting Training Course organized in Brussels by the Directorate General for Interpretation, the European Commission, Belgium;
• March 2006 - May 2007: Desk Officer, Interpretation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• May 2007 - December 2008: Studied a Master’s degree in Diplomacy and Trade, Australia;
• January 2009 - March 2009: Desk Officer, National Centre for Interpretation and Translation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• March 2009 - December 2010: Deputy Head, then Head of Administrative Division, National Centre for Interpretation and Translation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• December 2010 - April 2013: Assistant Director-General, National Centre for Interpretation and Translation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• April 2013-February 2014: Deputy Director-General, National Centre for Interpretation and Translation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• February 2014 - April 2015: Deputy Head of the National Secretariat for Hosting of the 132nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-132), National Assembly of Viet Nam;
• April 2015 - October 2015: Deputy Director-General, National Centre for Interpretation and Translation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• October 2015 - March 2019: Counsellor, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Viet Nam in Spain;
• May 2019 - May 2022: Deputy Director-General, National Centre for Interpretation and Translation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• May 2022 - Present: ​Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to the State of Israel

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