Do Hoang Diem
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Do Hoang Diem is the current chairman of Vietnam Reform Party. He was elected in September 2006 at the 6th Party Congress.
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[edit] History
Do Hoang Diem was born in 1963 and escaped from Vietnam on April 30, 1975 during the Fall of Saigon. He arrived to the United States as a refugee in June 1975. In 1984 he received his B.S. degree from the University of California, Irvine and in 1987 he graduated from the University of Houston with an MBA degree. With his degree, he worked as a manager in various industries including banking, entertainment, health care, electronics and restaurant business.
Diem became very active in the Vietnamese community. He served as the Vietnamese Professionals Society's first Board of Director from 1991-1992, was a radio and TV talk show host for Little Saigon Broadcasting and also a member of the Executive Board of the Vietnamese Community of Southern California. Most notably, as a member of the Vietnamese Public Affairs Committee since 1994, a grass root organization aiming to empower Vietnamese Americans, he testified numerous times in the US Congress about human rights violations in Vietnam, US-Vietnam relations, and other political issues.
[edit] Viet Tan membership
Diem already joined Viet Tan in 1982 while he was still in college [1]. After being a member for almost ten years, he became the Southern California Regional Director from 1991-1995, afterwards he became the External Affairs Director from 1996 - 2004, briefly held the position as the Policy Director in 2005-2006.
In September 2006 at the 6th Party Congress, he was elected to be the new chairman of Viet Tan, replacing the previous chairman Kim Nguyen. His current term will expire in 2011.
