Full Name
Pham Quang Vinh
Speaker Bio
Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh has had a storied career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has been accredited to the title of Senior Ambassador – the highest rank attainable by a career diplomat. He served as the fifth Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United States of America from 2015 to 2018. Ambassador Vinh was also posted twice to Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, first as an attaché from 1987 to 1990 and then as a minister counselor and deputy permanent representative from 1996 to 1999.

He recently retired after spending 38 years in the foreign service and is now a senior advisor who leverages his experience and deep knowledge of Vietnam’s complex political dynamics to help advance client equities and U.S.-Vietnam relations.

Ambassador Vinh graduated from the University of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi and earned a post-graduate degree in international relations from Canberra College of Advanced Education in Australia.
Pham Quang Vinh