Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân

Her mother Nguyễn Thị Sang (died in 2006), commonly known as Má Sáu, is the secret basis of Bến Tre revolution. Prior to 1975, her relatives were active in the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. Due to her father's escape, she was raised by her mother and educated in the control of the Republic of Vietnam.

In February 2006, she was transferred back to Deputy Minister of Finance, but only one month later she was assigned to Standing Deputy Minister of Trade.

She graduated from the rank of Deputy Manager, Head of Department, Deputy Director, Acting Director and was officially appointed Director of Ben Tre Finance Department in October 1991. In April 1995, she was sent to the Central Government and was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance.

Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam on 9 December 1981 and became a full member of the Party a year later.

In 1973 she went to Saigon to study for the Saigon Literature College, but her studies were interrupted when the North Vietnamese government took control of the entire South.

Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân (born 12 April 1954, in Bến Tre Province) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the first female Chairperson of the National Assembly of Vietnam from 31 March 2016 to 30 March 2021. She was a member of the 12th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in which she ranked second, after General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyễn Phú Trọng. She previously served as Deputy Chairperson of the National Assembly of Vietnam.

Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân was born on 12 April 1954 at the commune of Châu Hòa in Giồng Trôm District, Bến Tre Province. She earned a Ph.D. of Financial Management and Credit Management at University of Ho Chi Minh, a Ph.D. of politics and Ph.D. in Vietnamese Law in Ben Tre College. Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân joined the Communist Party of Vietnam on 9 December 1981. Her husband is Lê Trung Dũng.