The following is the biography of To Lam:
- Full name: To Lam
- Date of birth: July 10, 1957
- Ethnicity: Kinh
- Native place: Nghia Tru commune, Van Giang district, Hung Yen province
- Date of Party admission: August 22, 1981
- Date of official admission to the Party: August 22, 1982
- Profession, expertise: Law, Security
- Academic title, degree: Professor, Doctor in Laws
- Political theory: High-level
- Foreign language: English C
- Member of the Party Central Committee in the 11th, 12th and 13th tenures
- Member of the Party Central Committee's Politburo in the 12th and 13th tenures
- Deputy to the National Assembly in the 14th and 15th tenures.
- Commendation: Three first-class Military Exploit Orders; Third-class Military Exploit Order; two First-class Feat of Arms Orders; Second- and Third-class Feat of Arms Orders; First-, Second- and Third-class Soldier of Glory Orders; Medal "For the Cause of Homeland Security"; six Orders of the Lao State; Cambodia’s Royal Order of Sahametrei; First-class Order of June 6 of Cuba; and Russia’s Order of Friendship.
SUMMARY OF CAREER
- 1974 – 1979: Student at the People’s Security University (now the People’s Security Academy).
- 1979 – 1988: Working at the Ministry of Home Affairs (now the Ministry of Public Security).
- 1988 – 1990: Deputy head of a division at the General Department of Security; the Ministry of Home Affairs (now the Ministry of Public Security).
- 1990 – 1993: Head of a division at the General Department of Security; the Ministry of Home Affairs (now the Ministry of Public Security).
- 1993 – 1997: Deputy director at the General Department of Security, the Ministry of Public Security.
- 1997 – 2006: Director at the General Department of Security, the Ministry of Public Security.
- June 2006 – December 2009: Deputy Director-General of the General Department of Security, the Ministry of Public Security; promoted to Major General in April 2007.
- From December 2009: Deputy Director-General in charge of the General Department of Security I, the Ministry of Public Security.
- February 2010 – July 2010: Secretary of the Party Committee, Director-General of the General Department of Security I, member of the Central Public Security Party Commission; promoted to Lieutenant General in July 2010.
- August 2010 – January 2011: Member of the Central Public Security Party Commission, Deputy Minister of Public Security.
- January 2011 – July 2011: Member of the 11th-tenure Party Central Committee, member of the Central Public Security Party Commission, Deputy Minister of Public Security.
- August 2011 – January 2016: Member of the 11th-tenure Party Central Committee, member of the Standing Board of the Central Public Security Party Commission, Deputy Minister of Public Security; promoted to Senior Lieutenant General in September 2014.
- January 2016 – March 2016: Member of the 12th-tenure Politburo, member of the Standing Board of the Central Public Security Party Commission, Deputy Minister of Public Security.
- April 2016 – now: Member of the 12th- and 13th-tenure Politburo, member of the National Defence and Security Council, member of the Party Civil Affairs Committee of the Government; Secretary of the Central Public Security Party Commission, Minister of Public Security; deputy to the National Assembly in the 14th and 15th tenures; deputy head of the Central Steering Committee for Corruption Prevention and Control (now the Central Steering Committee for Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena); promoted to General in January 2019.
- On May 22, 2024: Elected as the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the 7th sitting of the 15th National Assembly.
