Education:

• October, 2002 - March, 2007: Ph.D. in Economics Development, School of Development Studies - University of East Anglia - the UK

• September, 1998 - December, 1999: M.Sc in Global Management and Development, University of Antwerp- Belgium

• September 1992 - July 1996: Bachelor in Economics Management,National Economics University - Hanoi - Vietnam

• August 17 - August 20, 2009: East Asia Data for Education Decision-Making Workshop: Linking Evidence to Planning and Action, UNICEF and UNESCO, Bangkok, Thailand

• April 20 - May 1, 2009: Strategic Choices for Education Reform: Building Accountability for Quality, World Bank Institute, Washington D.C, USA

• May 26 - Jun 6, 2008: Education Decentralisation in the Context of Public Sector Management Reform, UNESCO Khon Kaen, Thailand

• April 1, 2010 - present: Lecturer, Director of International Training and Education, University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University Hanoi

• December 1, 2007 - March 31, 2010: Officer, Department of Planning and Finance, Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam

• September 1996 - November 2007: Economics Lecturer, Faculty of Management Science- National Economics University- Hanoi- Vietnam

• May 2010: Resource person for Asian Development Bank study on “Higher Education in Dynamic Asia”, Team leader: Professor Ann Austin, Michigan State University

• March 2010: Local consultant for Belgian government’ study on potential cooperation between Belgium and Vietnam on “QUALITY HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT”

• November 2007 - May 2008: Key researcher in Indochina Research “Survey on Advocacy Demand, Business Associations and Business Development Services in Wood and Bamboo processing sector in Nghe An” funded by Denmark GCF

• March 2007 - November 2007: National consultant in World Bank project’s Building Capacity in Education Planning Project

• March 2005 - July 2006: Key researcher in the EU project “Vietnamese garment industry in the post Multi Fibre Agreement”

1. Book “Upgrading of Developing Country Producers in Global Value Chains”, Verlag Dr. Müller Publisher (Germany), 2010, ISBN: 978-3-639-22927-1.

1. Finance for Education in Vietnam – Challenges and Directions for Innovation- World Bank’s International Workshop Innovation in Financing for Education: Implications in Asia, Hanoi, April 1-3, 2009

 2. “Vietnam’s garment industry in global value chains”, China in Mainland South East Asia: Flying with Dragon? , Institute of Development Studies at University of Sussex, Social Research Institute at Chiang Mai University and Rockefeller Foundation, Chiang Mai, Thailand, October 18-19, 2006

3. “Upgrading of Vietnamese producers in global value chains”, Vietnam Development Forum Tokyo, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan, June 18, 2005