Vo Tri Thanh
Alumni of ANU College of Business & Economics
Then: PhD 1998, GradDipEcDev 1993, MEcDev 1994
Now: Director, Department for International Economic Integration Studies of the Central Institute of Economic Management, Vietnam
Dr Vo Tri Thanh is acknowledged as one of the most influential thinkers on economic policy and development for the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries of his time. He won the United Nations Special Prize for a co-authored report in 2001 for impact on social policy which joins other prizes for his outstanding research. This is an eclectic mix on financial markets, institutional reform for private institution development, risk assessment, transition from planning to a market economy, industrial upgrading in Vietnam, a perspective on the ASEAN economic community from ASEAN's transitional economies. His research contains challenges to address social inequality in Vietnam and to alleviate poverty.
Dr Vo Tri Thanh is a major influencer, with many publications about Vietnam, as a country, as an emerging economy. He is also fluent in the foreign languages of Russian and English.