EEPSEA welcomes all researcher associates to collaborate to do research, consultant and training in the field of environmental economics and development.
Pham Khanh Nam
Pham Khanh Nam is a senior research fellow and director of the Environment for Development Center (EfD-Vietnam) at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh city. He is the Dean of the School of Economics, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh city. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His areas of research interest are environmental and natural resources economics, climate change and experimental economics. Currently, his research focuses on forest devolution policy, marine plastic pollution and renewable energy in Vietnam. He has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Oxford Economic Paper, Land Use Policy or Journal of Development Studies.
Pham Khanh Nam has been actively involved in the revision of the Vietnamese Law of Environmental Protection as well as other policy dialogues on circular economy and green growth strategy. He is a member of several task forces under Vietnam’s Central Economic Committee and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. He has consulted the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, IUCN, and Vietnam Environment Administration.
Email: nam.pham@eepsea.net
Truong Dang Thuy
Truong Dang Thuy is Chair at the Department of Economics, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, and a senior research fellow at EfD-Vietnam. Thuy obtained the PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics at University of Alberta, Canada in 2013. Thuy specializes in household behavior and econometric modelling. His recent research projects and consultancy job focus on forestry, greenhouse gases emission, air pollution, and renewable energy. Thuy’s works were published in Land Use Policy, Climate Change Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Resource and Energy Economics and some other journals.
Email: truong@dangthuy.net
Dang Le Hoa
Dr. Hoa le Dang has been working as a lecturer at Faculty of Economics, Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City since 2003. She received her PhD at the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 2014 under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) program. She works across a range of disciplines within agriculture, environment, and development. Her research interests primarily focus on adaptation to climate change in agriculture, environmental valuation, and environmental issues in developing countries. Some of her previous projects include willingness to pay for the preservation of Lo Go – Xa Mat National Park in Vietnam; the attitude and behaviour of rice farmers in response to climate change in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. She has several publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Environmental Science & Policy, Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Climate and Development, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change; and has been a reviewer for many other journals such as Coastal Management, Population and Environment, World Development.
Email: danglehoa@hcmuaf.edu.vn
Ho Quoc Thong
Ho Quoc Thong is a lecturer at the School of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics (UEH). He also has been working as a postdoc research fellow at the Environment for Development in Vietnam (EfD-Vietnam) Center. Thong graduated from the School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Australia in 2018 and received a masters’ degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA in 2011. His main research interests focus on the area of efficiency and productivity analysis, environmental efficiency, and the use of behavioral economics approaches towards analyzing economic and environmental issues. He has several papers published in the Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production and Economic Record.
Email: thong.ho@eepsea.org
Le Thanh Loan
Le Thanh Loan received her doctorate degree in environmental economics and natural resources at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She joined the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 and received research grants from the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) in 2011 and the Alliance for Full Research Alliance. Bridge (GRA) at Kansas State University on the topic of climate change, land use change and agricultural emissions in 2013. She has experience as a training consultant at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in Ho Chi Minh City, as a lecturer in Economics, Ho Chi Minh City University of Agriculture and Forestry. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since 2016, she has worked at the Department of Environmental Economics and Natural Resources. Her research interests are ecological accounting, environmental management accounting, bioenergy economics, environmental economic model, agriculture in the bio-economy.
Email: loanlt@ueh.edu.vn
Nguyen Quang
Quang has got his PhD thesis in rural development from the Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University. Since 2021, he joins in the academic team at the School of Economics, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. Besides, he is also a research fellow in the field of environmental economics at the Economy & Environment Partnership for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA). His current researches interests include various environmental and rural problems such as (i) the role of mangrove forests in the South of Vietnam and (ii) land use and livelihood transformations in Vietnamese rural areas.
Email: quang.nguyen@eepsea.org
Tran My Minh Chau
She holds an MA in economics from Lincoln University, New Zealand and a PhD from Monash University, Australia. Her researches focus on gender inequality in labour markets and the effect of early childhood conditions on disadvantaged groups. She is also interested in behavior economics and experimental economics and has had experiences conducting experiments in Vietnam.
Dr. Minh Chau has also published many articles in some leading prestigious magazines such as International Journal of Social Economics, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Economic Development and Cultural Change.
Email: chau.tran@eepsea.org
Nguyen Luu Bao Doan
Dr. Nguyen Luu Bao Doan is the Chair of the Department of Real Estate and Director of the Undergraduate Real Estate Program at the University of Economics – Ho Chi Minh City. His primary research areas include land use, real estate, urban economics, spatial analysis and development issues. He also provides consultancy to public and private organizations. Dr. Nguyen obtained his doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning and Design from the University of Maryland and a Master of Public Affairs from Indiana University. He has published in Urban Studies, Environmental and Planning B: Planning and Design, Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, and Vietnamese Journal of Urbanism.
Email: doannlb@ueh.edu.vn
Vo Quoc Tuan
Dr. Tuan is currently a lecturer at Can Tho University. Tuan received the PhD at German Remote Sensing Data Center, DLR, Germany, in 2013. His research areas include remote sensing, land use, and ecosystem service valuation. He has published papers in academic journals such as Remote Sensing, Applied Geography, Ecological Indicators, and Sustainability Science.
Email: vqtuan@ctu.edu.vn
Le Viet Phu
Dr. Le Viet Phu is a faculty at the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management at Fulbright University Vietnam. Dr. Le Viet Phu was a researcher of the USAID-funded Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (LMPPI) from 2014-18, which investigated the water-food-energy nexus to facilitate public policy dialogs on environmentally sustainable economic development, increasing agricultural productivity, and improving household livelihoods in the five countries of the Lower Mekong Basin, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Phu received his doctoral degree in environmental economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2013, a master’s degree in international and development economics from the Australian National University in 2004.
Email: phu.le@fulbright.edu.vn
Quach Thi Khanh Ngoc
Dr Quach Thi Khanh Ngoc is Associate Professor at Nha Trang University. She has more than 10-year experience in the field of fisheries economics and biodiversity conservation. Her research focuses on the use and development of bioeconomic modeling for fisheries and marine protected areas, and economic performance and productivity of fisheries sector. Recently, she is interested in environmental valuation methods, particularly in the marine and coastal environment.
Email: ngocqtk@ntu.edu.vn
Dang Dinh Thang
Thang Dang is an applied micro-economist working on policy-relevant topics in labour, education, health and development economics. Thang’s research focuses on the intergenerational spillovers of human capital, cultural and social determinants of socio-economic inequality, and consequences of policy reform and development programmes. He received a PhD in economics from the University of York in 2021 and a master’s degree in economics from Victoria University of Wellington in 2015.
Thang is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Fertility and Health (CeFH), Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI).
Email: thang.dang@thangdang.org
Nguyen Van Phu
Phu Nguyen-Van holds a Ph.D. in economics in 2003 and an Accreditation to Supervise Doctoral Research (or HDR in French) in 2013. He is currently Research Professor at the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Strasbourg. He was a member of the national committee in charge of research valuation and recruitment in economics and management at the CNRS and the French Ministry of Agriculture. He currently serves as a member of the scientific board of several research structures in France (OHM Fessenheim, ZAEU Strasbourg, engineer school ENGEES). He is also a member of the executive board of the International Society of Vietnam Economists (ISVE). He has published extensively in the fields of applied econometrics and environmental economics in several international journals, including Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Forest Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, International Journal of Game Theory, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, etc. He was awarded the Bronze Medal by the CNRS in 2015 for the best young researcher (under 40 years old) in France.
Email: nguyen-van@unistra.fr
Bui Bich Xuan
Bui Bich Xuan is currently a postdoc research fellow at The UiT – the Arctic University of Norway. She is a teacher and a researcher at Economics Faculty, Nha Trang University. She received her PhD in Economics, focused on Natural Resources Economics, from the UiT – the Arctic University of Norway in 2017. Her research interests are Fisheries Economics and Management, Bioeconomic Modelling, and Environmental & Natural Resources Valuation. Her current research involves studies of managing the economic conflicts in marine resource use, evaluating the ecosystem services in deep seas, evaluating the potential sustainable aquaculture, and evaluating the economic impacts of marine debris on fisheries. She has published papers in Natural Resource Modelling Journal, Journal of Ocean and Coastal Management, Environmental and Resource Economics journal.
Email: xuanbb@ntu.edu.vn
Nguyen Hoai Bao
Dr Bao H. Nguyen is a lecturer in economics at the UEH School of Economics and School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania. He is also a research associate of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University (ANU). His current research focuses on applied macroeconomics, especially the relationship between energy and commodity price dynamics and macroeconomic performance on various economies. He has previously held academic positions at ANU, University of Papua New Guinea, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City and Harvard Program in Vietnam. He has a PhD in economics from ANU.
Email: nguyenhoaibao@gmail.com
Pham Thi Thanh Thuy
Thuy Pham is a teacher and researcher in the Department of Fisheries Economics and Management at the University of Nha Trang, Viet Nam. Currently, she has been working as a postdoctoral research fellow at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She served as the program coordinator of the Norhed international master program, ‘Marine ecosystem based management and climate change’ funded by Norwegian government for three years (2014 – 2016). Her academic interests include fisheries and aquaculture economics and management with concentration on bioeconomic modelling, rent creation and distribution, user conflicts, climate change, subsidies. For more than 10 years she has been involved in teaching, participating and leading several international and national research.
Email: thanhthuy41dn@gmail.com
Ho Hoang Anh
Ho Hoang Anh got his PHD degree in Economics from the University of Gothenburg. He has been working as a lecturer at the School of Economics at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City since 2010. His research interests are historical economics and development.
Email: anh.ho@ueh.edu.vn
Nguyen Trong Hoai
Prof. Nguyen Trong Hoai is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. His main areas of research are economic development, green economy and smart cities.
Email: hoaianh@ueh.edu.vn
Do Nam Thang
Dr. Do Nam Thang is currently a visiting lecturer at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, after more than 20 years working with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam. He is a Deputy Director of International Cooperation, Center for International Cooperation, Global Environment Agency (GEF), member of the Public Advisory Board of GEF, representative of Asia Pacific region at the workshops. addition of GEF7, national representative of the Clean Technology Fund, chair of the Working Group of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on climate change and national representation of the ASEAN Working Group on cities environmental sustainability. He led research projects on water environment management for river basins, reviewed environmental economic documents to revise the Law on Environmental Protection 2014, and assessed the environmental synergies of mitigation policies. climate change, pollution damage and national park pricing. In addition, he is also an active hand in supporting environmental policy issues for different regions and countries, including water environment management and sustainable cities. Mr. Do Nam Thang holds a PhD and an MA in Environmental Management and Development from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering from the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada.
Email: donamthang18@gmail.com
Phung Thanh Binh
Phung Thanh Binh is the Deputy Head of the Department of Environmental and Agricultural Economics and Natural Resources at the School of Economics of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. He received the Master of Development Economics from a joint program between the International Institute of Social Studies – Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) and University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). His research focuses mainly on environmental and energy issues with publications on International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Environmental Hazards, and Land Use Policy. He is currently in the final stage of his PhD program at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Email: ptbinh@ueh.edu.vn
Do Huu Luat
Do Huu Luat is the lecturer at the School of Economics of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. He has been working as Data manager and Research fellow in EfD–Vietnam. He holds a Master of Art in Development Economics from Vietnam- the Netherlands programme which is the jointly program between University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City and Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main areas of research interest are Environmental Economics and Applied Microeconomics.
Email: luat.do@eepsea.org
Le Thanh Nhan
Le Thanh Nhan received his Master of Arts in Economics from University of Missouri – Columbia (the US). He is currently a PhD student at Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics. His current research interests include climate change economics and sustainable urban development.
Email: nhan.le@eepsea.org
Tran Khanh Hoa
Hoa K. Tran graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics and Finance) from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She received the Master of Development Economics from a joint program between the International Institute of Social Studies – Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) and University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). Her studies are about childhood and their stages of development.
Email: hoa.tran@eepsea.org
Vo Duc Hoang Vu
Vu Vo is the lecturer at the School of Economics of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. He is also currently a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. His research interests are in climate change, agricultural economics and the environment.
Email: vu.vo@ueh.edu.vn