# Hung Pham

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{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{BLP primary sources|date=October 2008}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name             = Hung Pham
| image            = Hung Pham.jpg
| image_size       = 150px
| caption          = 
| office           = Member of the [Legislative Assembly of Alberta](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_Alberta) for [Calgary-Montrose](/source/Calgary-Montrose)
| term_start       = June 15, 1993
| term_end         = March 3, 2008
| predecessor      = [Rick Orman](/source/Rick_Orman)
| successor        = [Manmeet Bhullar](/source/Manmeet_Bhullar)
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1963|10|2}}
| birth_place      = [Saigon](/source/Saigon), [South Vietnam](/source/South_Vietnam)
| alma_mater       = [University of Calgary](/source/University_of_Calgary), [Mount Royal College](/source/Mount_Royal_College)
| spouse           = 
| party            = [Progressive Conservative](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Association_of_Alberta)
| children         =  
}}
'''Hung Pham''' or '''Hung Kim Pham''' (born Phạm Kim Hưng; October 2, 1963 in [Saigon](/source/Saigon)) is a former politician and information expert in [Alberta](/source/Alberta), Canada. He formerly served as a member of the [Legislative Assembly of Alberta](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_Alberta), Canada.

==Early life==
Born and growing up in [Saigon](/source/Saigon), the capital of [South Vietnam](/source/South_Vietnam), Hung Pham was one of the boat people leaving the country after the [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War). Coming to Canada in 1980 at the age of 16 without knowing how to speak English, teenager Hung Pham worked as a part-time janitor to make his living while going to high-school in [Calgary](/source/Calgary).

==Education==
Hung Pham completed his high-school education in 1982 and subsequently took the computer science university transfer program at [Mount Royal College](/source/Mount_Royal_College), where he received many awards and scholarships for outstanding academic achievements. Pham then transferred to the [University of Calgary](/source/University_of_Calgary) in 1984 and graduated from the university in 1986 with two bachelor's degrees with Distinction: Bachelor of Science with Distinction in [Computer Science](/source/Computer_Science) and Bachelor of Science with Distinction in [Pure Mathematics](/source/Pure_Mathematics). He went on to take a Master's program at the University of Calgary, specializing in [Artificial Intelligence](/source/Artificial_Intelligence).

==Career==
Pham started as a prominent Information Analyst with Canalta Data Services in 1988, he then joined The City of Calgary in 1989 as a Database Technical Analyst. He was promoted by The City of Calgary to be Senior Programmer Analyst in 1991.

==Community activities==
As an active member of many non-profit organizations, Hung Pham helped Calgary Police Service with its multicultural and crime prevention programs. He was elected President of Calgary Vietnamese Canadian Association in 1990. In this position, he promoted programs to help low income workers. With his well-known speech delivered to the community on 1991 [Tết](/source/T%E1%BA%BFt) celebration event, Pham publicly declared his programs to help cleaners in Calgary.

==Political career==
Pham was elected five times, holding many positions in the Alberta Government. In 2006, he was promoted by Premier Ed Stelmach to be a member of Alberta Treasury Board, the legislative body responsible for all expenditures and budgets of Alberta (Premier Ed Stelmach is also a member of the board).<ref>Government of Alberta. 2006. [https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=2090686D62539-DEAB-4B63-2047FAC61EB464B8 New cabinet team will focus on listening to Albertans and meeting their priorities, says Premier Stelmach  https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=2090686D62539-DEAB-4B63-2047FAC61EB464B8]</ref>

Pham did not run for election in 2008 election.<ref>Elections Alberta. 2008. Election and Participants. https://www.elections.ab.ca/wp-content/uploads/Part8.pdf</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* http://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_bio&rnumber=17 Legislative Assembly of Alberta Elected Members Biography

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 before=[Rick Orman](/source/Rick_Orman)|
 title=[MLA](/source/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly) [Calgary Montrose](/source/Calgary_Montrose)|
 years=1993&ndash;2008|
 after=[Manmeet Bhullar](/source/Manmeet_Bhullar)}}
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Category:1963 births
Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs
Category:Canadian activists
Category:Canadian engineers
Category:Living people
Category:Politicians from Ho Chi Minh City
Category:Vietnamese community activists
Category:Vietnamese engineers
Category:Vietnamese emigrants to Canada
Category:Canadian people of Vietnamese descent
Category:Vietnamese refugees
Category:People in information technology
Category:Politicians from Calgary
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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