Vu Viet Trang is appointed as General Director of Vietnam News Agency. (Photo: Van Diep/VNA)

Trang was born on October 16, 1969 in Hanoi. She graduated from the Vietnam National University - Hanoi, majoring in English, in 1993. She became a Party member in 2000.

Trang started her journalism career at VNA in 1993 as a sub-editor at the News for Foreign Service Department. In 2017, she was appointed Deputy General Director of VNA by the Prime Minister.