Trần Đức Lương

Trần Đức Lương (born 5 May 1937) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the sixth President of Vietnam from 1997 to 2006.

Early life
Trần Đức Lương was born in Đức Phổ District in Quảng Ngãi Province, and relocated to Hanoi after graduating from high school in 1954. He studied geology at Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, and was employed as a cartographer.

Career
He joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1959, and became a functionary of the party in the 1970s. In 1987, he became Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam. Member of the Politburo since June 1996, Trần Đức Lương was elected state president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on September 24, 1997, and re-elected in 2002. On June 24, 2006, Lương announced his resignation (along with Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải). Nguyễn Minh Triết was named to succeed Lương as president.

His retirement was quiet and he only joined the government national programs or state funerals of other senior members of the Communist Party.

Family
His son, Trần Tuấn Anh was the head of Central Economic Committee until the resignation in 2024.

In his family, there is another member who works as a social activist is Tran Van Anh- The second granddaughter of Tran Duc Luong. She graduated from Brown University, a private school in US with full scholarship in Economics and politics. Tran Van Anh and other members of the family has low-profile lifestyle and very limited public information of them compared to his son Trần Tuấn Anh. The only information available about the president's heir generation is that his second granddaughter now works for NGO sector under ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam. It's been stated that his family members will not become involved in politics.

Other family members of Trần Đức Lương work in commerce, trading field.