Trương Thị Mai

Trương Thị Mai (; born 23 January 1958) is a Vietnamese politician. She was the Permanent Member of the Secretariat and Head of the Central Organization Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam, being the first woman to hold these positions.

Mai was a member of both the Secretariat and Politburo, the country's highest decision-making bodies, in which she ranked 5th (after the General Secretary, the President, the Prime Minister and the National Assembly Chair), which made her the most powerful woman in Vietnamese politics.

A member of the Party Central Committee since 2006, she was previously the Head of the Party's Mass Mobilisation Commission. A long-time member of the National Assembly of Vietnam since 1997, Mai also served as Chair of the Parliamentary Committee for Social Affairs and Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children. She was the President of the Vietnam–Cuba Friendship Association.

Before entering national politics, Mai was the President of the Vietnam Youth Federation, being the first woman to do so. She was also a Permanent Member of the Central Committee's Secretariat of the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union.

She held a Bachelor of History, a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Public Administration as well as an Advanced Degree in Political Theory from the Hồ Chí Minh National Academy of Politics. Provided by Wikipedia