2025 Vietnam Delegates
Thieu Thi Huong
Director of the Protestantism Office, Governmental Committee on Religious Affairs, Vietnam
Thieu Thi Huong serves as the Protestant Division Chief for the Government Committee of Religious Affairs (GCRA) and is responsible for advising on the building and enforcement of laws and policies related to Protestantism nationwide. Ms. Thieu has over 20 years of religious work experience in Vietnam, especially in ethnic minority areas. She participated in drafting the Law of Belief and Religion of Vietnam. She is a legal reporter on the implementation of the law for central and provincial cadres. She contributed to the scientific works on Protestantism and pastoral disoduction of drugs; the contribution of the Protestant in eliminating the custom. Ms. Thieu hopes tos engage with experts in law, policy, and religion of the countries to attend the conference and then subsequently share her newly acquired knowledge and potentially influence these engagements in Vietnam.
Thieu Thi Huong serves as the Protestant Division Chief for the Government Committee of Religious Affairs (GCRA) and is responsible for advising on the building and enforcement of laws and policies related to Protestantism nationwide. Ms. Thieu has over 20 years of religious work experience in Vietnam, especially in ethnic minority areas. She participated in drafting the Law of Belief and Religion of Vietnam. She is a legal reporter on the implementation of the law for central and provincial cadres. She contributed to the scientific works on Protestantism and pastoral disoduction of drugs; the contribution of the Protestant in eliminating the custom. Ms. Thieu hopes tos engage with experts in law, policy, and religion of the countries to attend the conference and then subsequently share her newly acquired knowledge and potentially influence these engagements in Vietnam.
Phạm Quốc Thành
Rector, Thai Binh University; Head, Strong Research Group on Vietnamese Politics, Rule of Law and Religion, Vietnam National University, Vietnam
Pham Quoc Thanh, Associate Professor, PhD, is the dean of the Faculty of Political Science, VNU-USSH. He has been a prominent Vietnamese partner of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU) in deploying numerous research projects and training courses on the rule of law and religion in Vietnam. His studies mainly focus on the political system and the rule of law in Vietnam and comparative politics. Some of his recent publications: Vietnamese Grassroots Political System in the Northwest of Vietnam: Political Philosophy: Some fundamental issues (2016), Some theoretical and practical issues (2018), Theoretical trends, state models, institutions and laws in the contemporary world (2022), etc.
Pham Quoc Thanh, Associate Professor, PhD, is the dean of the Faculty of Political Science, VNU-USSH. He has been a prominent Vietnamese partner of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU) in deploying numerous research projects and training courses on the rule of law and religion in Vietnam. His studies mainly focus on the political system and the rule of law in Vietnam and comparative politics. Some of his recent publications: Vietnamese Grassroots Political System in the Northwest of Vietnam: Political Philosophy: Some fundamental issues (2016), Some theoretical and practical issues (2018), Theoretical trends, state models, institutions and laws in the contemporary world (2022), etc.
Đỗ Quang Hưng
Professor, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University; Chairman, The Religious Advisory Council of the Central Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front, Vietnam
Dr. Đỗ Quang Hưng is one of the founders of religious studies in Vietnam and is the former director of the Institute for Religious Studies (IRS) under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. He is also the former editor-in-chief of the institute’s Religious Studies magazine. From 2010 to 2020, he was head of the International Politics Department of the Faculty of Political Science at Vietnam National University’s University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi. He has a PhD in history from the Russian Academy of Sciences and was conferred the rank of state professor in 2001. His publications include Religion and Modernity (2014), Religion – State – Law (2015, Vietnam National Book Award), Religious Policy and Rule of Law State (2014), Secular State (2021, Vietnam National Book Award), and the trilogy Religion and Rule of Law State in Vietnam, which includes the books Religion and Society, Religion and Law, and Religion and State (2022). He was a member of the National Assembly’s advisory committee, drafting the Ordinance on Beliefs and Religions (2004) and the Law on Belief and Religion (2016). He is chairman of the Religious Advisory Council of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.
Dr. Đỗ Quang Hưng is one of the founders of religious studies in Vietnam and is the former director of the Institute for Religious Studies (IRS) under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. He is also the former editor-in-chief of the institute’s Religious Studies magazine. From 2010 to 2020, he was head of the International Politics Department of the Faculty of Political Science at Vietnam National University’s University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi. He has a PhD in history from the Russian Academy of Sciences and was conferred the rank of state professor in 2001. His publications include Religion and Modernity (2014), Religion – State – Law (2015, Vietnam National Book Award), Religious Policy and Rule of Law State (2014), Secular State (2021, Vietnam National Book Award), and the trilogy Religion and Rule of Law State in Vietnam, which includes the books Religion and Society, Religion and Law, and Religion and State (2022). He was a member of the National Assembly’s advisory committee, drafting the Ordinance on Beliefs and Religions (2004) and the Law on Belief and Religion (2016). He is chairman of the Religious Advisory Council of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.