Le Luu
Writer, culture businessman
Director of the Vietnam Culture for Businessmen Center
Member economy: Vietnam

Le Luu was born in 1942 in Khoai Chau, Nghe An – one of the central provinces of Vietnam. His parents had 8 children but five of them died in the terrible famine in 1945. Le Luu was an army courier. Now, he is an editor for the magazine named Van Nghe Quan Doi. He is also a very famous writer with many well-known novels in which “The Time Far the Past” , first published in 1986, is one of the most significant and famous ones since the end of the War with the U.S. That novel tells us the complexity of the family, the village history as well as the Communist Party and the village authority. Since 2002, Mr. Luu has also been the Director of the Vietnam Culture for Businessmen Center.In 1988, Mr. Le Luu had a chance to visit USA. After his visit, he recognized that Vietnamese and International businessmen should have a connection with each other. And according to him, economic relation is the best way to link the world together in the complex context of political relations. In 2002, The Vietnam Culture for Businessmen Center was established. Mr. Le Luu said that the purposes of establishing that center are first to strengthen the key role of Vietnamese businessmen to overcome the backward awareness of them, second to help enterprises to reaffirm their own cultures, for example each businessman should be an economist as well as an intellectual both in their daily life and work and third to unify those people who are both the businessman and the writer, the artist.

His Vietnam Culture for Businessmen Center is the bridge to connect these 3 important components: The first are artists, writers, journalists. The second are scientists, researchers, and the third are managers. All of them work and together build up entrepreneurial culture. Currently, the Center of Vietnam culture for Businessmen has a club with approximately 1000 members, 1 Culture for Businessmen’s Magazine, 18 member centers, three of which, namely Press, Law and Technology and Science Centers are to protect enterprises.

Mr. Le Luu expressed his concern on the necessity of entrepreneurial culture which is becoming a very important factor in the integrated world, especially when Vietnam has become the 150th member of the WTO. The world has opened to Vietnam with many opportunities but also a lot of challenges. Businessmen are those who contribute a lot for the country development. Therefore, it’s very important to emphasize that to be able to integrate in the global world; a businessman has to be the cultured one.

Mr. Le Luu is an old man but has a very progressive point of view. He has bridged the past and the presence not only through his novels but through his own recent activities as a director of the Vietnam Culture for Businessmen Center. He has a right approach of culture which is the entrepreneurial culture in the context of globalization. In the past, actually, the concept of entrepreneurial culture was not popular in Vietnam and many company leaders even didn’t pay much attention to that. But nowadays, things have changed rapidly and entrepreneurial culture is becoming the focused point of many companies. And Mr. Le Luu’s center is an important place to connect and improve awareness of and about Vietnamese businessmen world.

Contributed by: Nguyen Thi Van Anh