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Hoang Thi Thu Huyen is Chairperson of Trade Union of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Viet Nam (MOLISA). From 2014 to 2019, as the Deputy Director of the Department on Gender Equality of MOLISA, she was responsible for developing and implementing the National Strategy and Program on Gender Equality. In that role, she attended annual sessions of UN Commission on the Status of Women and other international conferences on women’s rights. She was also the coordinator of Gender Action Partnership (GAP), a policy forum for dialogue on gender equality between the Government and development partners in Viet Nam. She was the Chair of the 2017 APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy, an effective mechanism to integrate gender equality and women in APEC.