Le Quang Lan was appointed as Director for Market Integration Directorate (MID), the ASEAN Secretariat, from 1 December 2021. In 2018-2019, he served as Deputy Director General of the National Competition and Consumer Agency. He first joined the ASEAN Secretariat in 2015 as Assistant Director for Trade Facilitation and rejoined the ASEAN Secretariat in 2019 as Assistant Director for ICT and Tourism.  He was the Director General – Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the World Trade Organization (WTO), from 2011 to 2015, and the Senior Economic Official Leader of Vietnam in ASEAN for the period of 2008 – 2010. Graduated as economist in National University of Economics in Vietnam in 1995 and earned Doctorate Degree on Economics in National Trade Institute in Vietnam in 2003.  He read and obtained his Master of Law in George Mason University in Antitrust Law and Economics in Virginia, USA.