| Lê Lương Minh | |
| Office: | 13th Secretary-General of ASEAN |
| Term Start: | 1 January 2013 |
| Term End: | 31 December 2017 |
| Predecessor: | Surin Pitsuwan |
| Successor: | Lim Jock Hoi |
| Office2: | Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations |
| Term Start2: | January 2004 |
| Term End2: | June 2011 |
| Predecessor2: | Nguyen Thanh Chau |
| Successor2: | Le Hoai Trung |
| Office3: | Non-resident Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam |
| Term Start3: | December 2008 |
| Term End3: | 1 February 2018 |
| Birth Date: | 1 September 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Thanh Hóa, Vietnam |
| Party: | Communist Party of Vietnam |
| Alma Mater: | Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam Jawaharlal Nehru University |
Lê Lương Minh (born 1 September 1952)[1] [2] is a Vietnamese politician and diplomat who served as the 13th secretary-general of ASEAN between 2013 and 2017.[3] [4]
Lê Lương Minh graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1974,[1] and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.[5]
In 1975, he began his career in Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Deputy Director-General for International Organisations in 1993. In 1995, he was appointed as Ambassador – Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and Other International Organisations in Geneva.[1] In 1997, he was appointed as Ambassador – Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations at Headquarters. Since February 17, 2004, he has been Vietnam's ambassador to the United Nations in New York City.[2] He held this office from 1995 to 1997 for the UN institutions in Geneva and as a deputy in New York City from 1997 to 1999.[2] He was the President of the United Nations Security Council in July 2008[6] and October 2009.[5] [7] He was nominated ASEAN Secretary-General by the government of Vietnam, a post which he took over on January 1, 2013. The ASEAN leaders endorsed him as ASEAN Secretary-General for 2013–2017 in a ceremony at the bloc's headquarter in Jakarta on January 7, 2013.[1]
He is a native of Thanh Hóa, a coastal town 150 kilometers south of Vietnam's capital Hanoi. He is married and has two daughters.[1]