Lương Thanh Nghị, a career diplomat, is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the Kingdom of Denmark, accredited to the Republic of Iceland. A veteran diplomat with broad experiences in journalism and communication, he has a career spanning over three decades in various senior positions.

He most recently served as the Vice Chairman of the State Commission on Overseas Vietnamese, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam (2017-2022).

From 2014 to 2017, he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Australia.

Prior to these assignments, Ambassador Lương Thanh Nghị was Director General of the Department of Information and the Press, and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2011-2014). Ambassador Lương Thanh Nghị was Director General of the Foreign Press Center (2008-2011) and Deputy Director General of the Department of Information and the Press (2006-2008).

From 2003 to 2006, he was Deputy Consul General at the Consulate General of Vietnam in Osaka, Japan.

Joining the Foreign Press Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a Desk Officer in 1989, he and was promoted to Deputy Director in 1997 and Deputy Director General in 1999.

He graduated from the University of Foreign Affairs (now the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam) in 1988 and completed advanced courses in journalism and communication in Tokyo, Japan in 1993. He is fluent in English and Japanese.

Ambassador Lương Thanh Nghị was born in Hà Nam in 1965 and is married with two children.