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Dr. Thai Ngoc Chien, is Head of the Department of Capture Fishery and Resource Management, Research Institute for Aquaculture Number 3 under The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam. His works cover different fields such as Capture Fishery, Resource Management, Environmental Monitoring, and Introduction of new aquaculture models or livelihood models to farmers. He has coordinated several projects on building up new models to adapt the Climate Change: “Introducing polyculture technology and providing policy-makers for sustainable aquaculture development in Vietnam” from 2004-2005, financed by Vietnamese Government; Project on “Aquaculture and Coastal Management in Vietnam” from 2003-2012 financed by Norway; Project on “Reducing the dependence on the utilization of trash fish/low-value fish as feed for aquaculture of marine finfish in the Asian region” from 2009-2010, financed by FAO.
From 2010-2011, he worked with Climate Change Project on “Coastal Marine Biodiversity of Vietnam: Regional and Local Challenges and Coastal Zone Management for Sustainable Development”, Lead by Dr. Konstantin A. Lutaenko.
He participated in Workshop on Technical Consultancy for stock enhacement from 13-15/07/2005 in Iloilo, Philippines.
At the moment, he is working with Seaweed Production Project; in this project he has developed models of seaweed culture for the poor farmers along the coast of Vietnam who can shift their livelihoods from in-shore capture fishery to aquaculture due to the risk of capture fishery industry effected by monsoon, storms, sea level rise that are believed effecting by Climate Change.

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Nguyen Thi Lan Huong is Director of the Center for International Law, East Sea Institute, of the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam (DAV) since 2022. She was Deputy Director of the Center for International Cooperation, East Sea Institute, DAV from 2020 to 2022.
Her research field is Public International Law and the Law of the sea. She got her bachelor in International Relations, specialised in International Law in the Institute of International Relations in Viet Nam (2007); LLM in International and European Law in the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) (2011) and PhD in International Law in the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam (2023).

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Senior Colonel, Vu Van Khanh, born in 1960, former Director of the Department of International Studies, Institute for Defence Strategy, Ministry of National Defence of Vietnam; member of the Vietnam Journalists Association. He holds the MA Degree in Strategic Studies at Deakin University, Australia, and BA Degree in Press and Publication at Ha Noi University of Press and BA Degree in Foreign Languages at Ha Noi University, and Certificate of Command and Staff at the Army Academy. Research expertise: Defence strategy, Military strategy; international analysis and defence diplomacy. The author has written 13 books published by the People’s Public Security Publishing House and the People’s Army Publishing House, hundreds of articles published in magazines, printed and electronic newspapers; many scientific papers published in the proceedings of domestic and international scientific conferences.

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Dr. Lai Thai Binh is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the Philippines. He served as deputy director-general of the East Sea (South China Sea) Institute (Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam), the deputy consul-general of Vietnam in Houston, deputy director-general and assistant director-general at Americas Department in the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, director of the American research division, director and deputy director of the North America division, and as a Vietnam-U.S. relations desk officer.
He earned a BA in international economics from Hanoi Foreign Trade University and a Ph.D in International relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.

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Dr. Bich Tran (pronounced as Bic Trahn) is a senior fellow at Verve Research and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She has been selected to join the Young Strategists Forum 2025 and International Strategy Forum 2024. Her research interests include grand strategy, maritime security, cybersecurity, and other issues at the intersection between geopolitics and technology.

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