Tiểu sử Đại sứ nước Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam tại Timor-Leste

Biography H.E. Ambassador Pham Binh Dam Chargé d’Affaires ad interim — Embassy of Viet Nam in Timor‑Leste

Biography H.E. Ambassador Pham Binh Dam Chargé d’Affaires ad interim — Embassy of Viet Nam in Timor‑Leste H.E. Ambassador Pham Binh Dam is a senior diplomat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam. He currently serves as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim of the Embassy of Viet Nam in Timor‑Leste — the first resident Vietnamese diplomatic mission in the country — pending the completion of internal procedures for his formal appointment as Ambassador of Viet Nam to Timor‑Leste. Since joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997, Ambassador Pham has worked in the fields of diplomacy, institutional development, high-level interpretation and translation, and state protocol. In the early stage of his career, he was elected Secretary of the Youth Union of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2000) and subsequently became a Member of the Central Committee of the Viet Nam National Youth Union (2003). Ambassador Pham has held a range of senior leadership positions within the Ministry, including Deputy Chief of the Translation Division, Chief of the Training Division, Director-General of the National Centre for Translation and Interpretation, and Director-General of the Interpretation and Translation Department. In March 2025, he was appointed Director-General of the Protocol and Interpretation Directorate following the merger of three department-level institutions: the Protocol Department of the External Affairs Commission of the Party Central Committee, the State Protocol Directorate, and the Department of Translation and Interpretation. In that role, he consolidated protocol and interpretation functions at both Party and State levels and oversaw protocol arrangements for major state visits and high-level diplomatic engagements. He also served as Director-General of the National Secretariat for APEC Viet Nam 2027 before taking up his position as Viet Nam’s top diplomat in Timor‑Leste. Ambassador Pham has extensive overseas experience. He served as Second Secretary at the Permanent Delegation of Viet Nam to UNESCO in Paris (2005–2008), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Viet Nam to the United Arab Emirates (2014–2017), and Consul-General of Viet Nam in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (2021–2024). In April 2026, he was appointed Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to establish and lead the Embassy of Viet Nam in Timor‑Leste upon the official commencement of the Embassy’s operations in Dili. Ambassador Pham holds a master’s degree in Diplomacy and Trade from Monash University (Australia), a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Ha Noi University, and a Diploma in Advanced Public Administration and Leadership from the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration.