Le Thai Ha

Dr. Thai-Ha Le is the Managing Director of the VinFuture Foundation and the "For Green Future" Foundation (Vingroup). She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Ph.D. in Economics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where she completed her Ph.D. within two years at the age of 24. Her primary research fields include energy economics, environmental economics, and applied economics. Dr. Le is an active researcher who has published about 80 scholarly research articles in international, peer-reviewed journals such as Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Resources Policy, Economic Modelling, International Review of Financial Analysis, Empirical Economics, Annals of Operations Research, Applied Economics, Australian Tax Forum. She has consulted for The World Bank, UNDP, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Headquarters, and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), etc. Besides, Dr. Le is an affiliated senior research fellow at IPAG Business School in Paris, the third-best French business school. She is also a recipient of multiple competitive research grants and fellowships such as the Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) Fellowship for Young Scholars in 2013, the Public Diplomacy Federal Assistance Award by The U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s Public Affairs Section in 2018 and the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) funds for research in social sciences and humanities in 2019 and 2021 as the principal investigator. Dr. Le serves as an external reviewer for the Vici Social Sciences and Humanities programme under the NWO Talent Programme, The Dutch Research Council. She is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy and holds associate editor/editorial roles with several other scholarly journals like Journal of Economic Asymmetries (Elsevier), Journal of Economic Development (sponsored by the National Research Foundation of Korea), Singapore Economic Review (one of the oldest and most respected economics journals in the Asia-Pacific region) and "Springer New Monograph Series, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives" (Springer Nature). According to rankings published by PLoS Biology in 2021 and Elsevier in 2022, 2023, Dr. Le is in the world's top 1% most influential scientists across all scientific fields. She is also the youngest member of the scientific committee in economics for the term 2022-2024 of NAFOSTED (under Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology).