Born June 3, 1954 in Salavan Province (to a peasant family)
Education:
1986-1990: Degree in Partisan Development at the Higher Soviet Communist Party School in Moscow.
Experience:
1974: Became a revolutionary.
1974-1980: Worked in Champasak Province.
1979: Joined the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
1980-1986: Worked at the Chancery of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
1990-1992: Secretary to the Prime Minister.
1992-1996: Deputy Minister of the Chancery of the Prime Minister.
1996: Joined the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
1996-2003: Headed the Chancery of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
2001: Joined the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
2003-2006: Deputy Prime Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
2006 (June): Elected Prime Minister at the first meeting of the Sixth National Assembly (parliament).
Other
Fluent in Russian and English.
Personal
Married, with four children.