• Supreme white belt.
• Direct disciple of the Master Founder Nguyen Loc.
• Founding member of the 1st Council of Masters of Vovinam-VVD in 1964.
• President of the World Federation of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao (1996-2000).
• Member of the World Council of Masters (2000- 2012)
• President of the Supreme Council of Masters (2012-2016, 2016-2022).
• Founding member of Vovinam-VVD Texas, USA

Master Ngo Huu Lien was born in 1937 in My Do, Bac Giang, North Vietnam. He started Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao in 1955, at the age of 18, with the Founding Master at the “Thu Khoa Huan” Training Center in Saigon, the first Vovinam center in southern Vietnam. 

Currently, he is one of the highest-ranking masters of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao, a founding member of the 1st Council of Masters of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao in Vietnam in 1964, after the death of Founding Master Nguyen Loc. 

At the beginning of the year 1964, master Ngo Huu Lien and the masters at the time: Le Sang, Tran Huy Phong, Manh Hoang, Nguyen Van Thu, Phan Quynh, Tran Ban Que, Nguyen Van Cuong, Nguyen Van Thong… had developed a proposal and created a program in order to institutionalize Vovinam Viet Vo Dao. They had founded the first Council of Masters as the central organization of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao. Master Le Sang had been elected to the position of Patriarch, Master Tran Huy Phong was the second important figure of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao and Master Ngo Huu Lien was the president of the Legal Commission. 

 In the years 1964-1975, Master Ngo Huu Lien successively held the positions: Coordinator, Secretary General of the Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao Federation, member of the Viet Vo Dao Youth Federation... and participated in teaching at the Vovinam training centers in Saigon – Cho Lon. He provided training at the school for National Police officers with Master Nguyen Van Vang as his assistant. He led the courses at the 8th District Police Center with Master Vu Kim Trọng as his assistant. In addition, he actively participated in the training sessions of the masters of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao organized every year.

Apart from the activities of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao, Master Ngo Huu Lien was very active in charitable activities through the creation of educational centers for the general public which aimed to provide free or low-cost courses to prepare high school students to pass their matriculation exams and at the same time to teach the techniques of self-defense of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao with colleges: Manh Hoang, Tran Huy Phong, Hoang Quan, Dinh Duc Mau, Nguyen Van Cuong, Phan Quynh, Nguyen Xuan Thieu, Mai Trung Hoa....

As a law graduate, he joined the Saigon Barrister in 1962. A few years later, because of the Vietnam war, he was called up for services. Coming from the 17^th cohort of the School of Reserve Officers of Thu Duc and the 10th cohort of the Higher School of Administration and Finance Officers of the Armies of the Republic of Vietnam, he held the position of Lecturer in finance and administration at this military school.

At the end of 1968, he was seconded to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Youth, first as an inspector and then chief inspector of the Youth Administration of the Republic of South Vietnam until 1975. 

In 1975, when the Vietnam war ended, he migrated to the United States of America with his family and settled in Texas to this day.

Shortly after his arrival in the United States, he immediately began to promote Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao with masters Nguyen The Hung, Vo Trung, Vo Thanh Long, Nguyễn Văn Do, Nguyễn Chinh, Bui Khac Hung, Le Huy Chuong, Nguyen Van Luong ... to establish the Vovinam-VVD Texas in 1980. Initially, he held the position of President of the Board then President of the Council of Masters of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao Texas for many years then he left this position to young masters to continue to promote Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao in Texas in particular and in the world in general. 

In 1995, in response to the appeal of master patriarch Tran Huy Phong, master Ngo Huu Lien and the masters of the former Council of Masters in 1964, issued on September 16, 1995, the declaration of the official establishment of the Provisional Council of Masters abroad. This council was the precursor of the World Council of Masters and the World Federation of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao, created during the 2nd World Congress in 1996 in Paris. He was elected to the position of President of the World Federation of Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao (the first president for the term 1996-2000), and was elected for several consecutive terms as a member of the permanent bureau of the World Council of Masters, of the Supreme Council of Masters. In 2012, he was elected President of the Supreme Council of Masters, term 2012-2016 and 2016-2022.