PM appoints new chairman for national utility

HA NOI (VNS)— Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung this week appointed the Deputy General Director of Electricity of Viet Nam (EVN) Duong Quang Thanh, as the group’s Chairman of Members Council.

Thanh, 53, was born in the central province of Quang Binh. He holds a doctorate degree in Economics and has worked in the electricity industry for more than three decades in general, and for the group for more than two decades in particular. Since 2007, he has worked as EVN’s Deputy General Director, being in charge of the nuclear power investment project, building the electricity market, training human resources and working on key projects to provide power to southern Viet Nam.

Earlier, the former Chairman of EVN Hoang Quoc Vuong was also appointed as the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. Since then, General Director Pham Le Thanh had assumed the duties of Chairman temporarily. — VNS