Professor Greg Fox a respiratory physician, epidemiologist and clinical trialist committed to using research to improve health care among disadvantaged populations. He leads the Sydney Vietnam Academic Network, a multidisciplinary group of academics supporting collaborative research and education in Vietnam. He is also a Research Leader at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, member of the International Union of TB and Lung Disease, the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the McGill International TB Center in Canada.

His research focuses on detection and prevention of tuberculosis (TB), a lung infection that kills over two million people each year. Greg's ongoing work ranges from community-wide cluster randomised trials and clinical trials to meta-analysis and evidence-base policy development.

As Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Mark Scott AO leads the University of Sydney’s strategic direction, in close consultation with the Chancellor, senior leaders and the University’s Senate and Academic Board. In this role he is committed to driving transformative change that will support students and staff from all backgrounds to excel and realise their potential, solve the world’s most pressing challenges and secure a prosperous future for the University.

Professor Scott is a highly respected and successful senior leader of large and complex institutions, across public service, education and the media. His notable roles include Secretary of the NSW Department of Education (2016 to 2021), Managing Director of the ABC (2006 to 2016) and Editor-in-Chief of Fairfax newspapers.

Professor Scott is a proud alumnus of the University and holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Diploma of Education, a Master of Arts (Political Science and Government), an Honorary Doctorate (Letters) and a Professor of Practice (Education and Media) from the University of Sydney, as well as a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of NSW and University of Technology Sydney.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn was born in 1962. His hometown is Hanoi. He is a career diplomat with more than 30 years of experience in international relations, foreign policy planning, international economics and international negotiations.

Minister Bui Thanh Son graduated from the University of Diplomacy (now the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam) in 1984 and obtained a Master degree in International Affairs at Columbia University (USA) in 1993. He began his diplomatic career in September 1987 as a research fellow at the Institute for International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). From June 1993 to March 1996, he was designated as the Head of Europe – America Department, Chief of Office, Institute for International Relations. He held the position of Deputy Director of the Institute for International Relations between March 1996 and February 2000.

From March 2000 to July 2003, he was Minister Counselor at the Embassy of Viet Nam to the Republic of Singapore, before returning to MOFA to serve as Deputy Director, then Director General for Foreign Policy Planning until September 2008.

Between September 2008 to November 2009, he acted as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director General for Foreign Policy Planning. He also was Viet Nam’s Chief Negotiator of the Partnership and Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between Viet Nam and the EU from September 2008 to June 2012. In November 2009, he was appointed Vice Minister and from July 2016 served as First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Minister Bui Thanh Sơn is a member of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam since January 2016 and a deputy of the National Assembly since June 2016.

On April 8, 2021, he is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by the National Assembly. On July 28, 2021, At the First Session of 15th National Assembly, he was approved to be Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In his career, he has been conferred with many awards of high distinction, including two Second-Class Orders of Labour in 2016 and 2018 and a Third-Class Labour Order in 2011 and numerous Prime Minister’s Certificates of Merit for his outstanding contributions to the diplomatic service and the execution of the country’s foreign policies.

Minister Bui Thanh Son is married with one daughter.

Minister for Industry and Trade, Minister for Better Regulation and Fair Trading, Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology, Minister for Building, Minister for Corrections Parliament of New South Wales.

Anoulack has lived in the Campbelltown region for over 25 years, having moved to Australia from Laos with his parents and three brothers when he was six. Anoulack attended Robert Townson Primary, Robert Townson High School in Raby, then went on to graduate from the University of Sydney and the London School of Economics. He understands the importance of a good local public education and the opportunities it provides.

In her role as the University's executive lead for engagement, Kirsten has responsibility for student recruitment, admissions and mobility, marketing communications and media, industry, government and community engagement and the University’s museums and cultural engagement. Her team works across Australia and around the world to connect talented students with Sydney, and to advocate for the impact and benefit of the University on the communities it serves.

Kirsten joined the University of Sydney in 2013 to transform its media and government relations functions, leading issues management and Vice-Chancellor profile. She then spent three years as Chief of Staff to the Vice-Chancellor, during which time she also chaired the University’s Crisis Management Committee during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prior to joining the University, Kirsten held senior positions in government and the not-for-profit sector, including at the National Heart Foundation, as Chief of Staff to a federal minister, and Deputy Director of Communications to the Premier of New South Wales.

Kirsten holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies (Hons) from the University of South Australia and a Master's in Public Policy from the University of Sydney.

Justin is an infectious disease specialist and clinical researcher. He completed his PhD through the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, based around a clinical trial of HIV associated cryptococcal meningitis. He has been involved with numerous clinical trials, epidemiological studies, and environmental sampling projects in the years since.

His current research focusses on fungal infections, tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, and One Health. He has a particular interest in reducing the impact of these chronic conditions in resource-limited settings, as a means of impacting global inequalities. He works on the emergence of antifungal resistance, and the one health / climate change drivers of this phenomenon.

In 2022, he led a group of researchers on behalf of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to develop their 2022 Fungal Priority Pathogen List, a ground-breaking global prioritisation which ranks pathogens according to their need for research and development. He is a member of the WHO expert advisory group on One Health and antimicrobial resistance.

Professor Thu Anh Nguyen is an infectious diseases and public health researcher. Her research focuses on detection and treatment of tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis B and C, applying multi-disciplinary approach to elaborate research plan and conduct trials of complex interventions.

Since 2013, Thu Anh has been an honorary academic at the University of Sydney’s Medical School and the Country Director of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Vietnam. She leads a team of over 80 staff across academic disciplines such as medicine, molecular biology, social science, psychology, data science, public health, pharmacology. She has been the chief investigator and associate investigator for multiple projects totalling over $20 million in competitive research.

Thu Anh completed her PhD at University of Amsterdam, with a focus on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV from the perspectives of medical anthropology and epidemiology.

Dr Tim Hall is the Deputy Provost of Vietnam Campus and Senior Lecturer in Hospitality Management at the Western Sydney University. Tim holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a PhD degree from the same institution. Tim also has extensive experience in the hospitality industry working in various management roles for over 25 years.

As Deputy Provost, Tim is responsible for overseeing the academic quality of existing programs across multiple disciplines delivered at the Wester Sydney University (WSU), Vietnam campus. As part of this role, Tim has overseen the expansion of academic programs and student numbers in Vietnam.

In his academic career, Tim has undertaken significant research and undertaken many outbound mobility programs which have resulted in excess of 100 students experiencing outbound mobility programs, receiving numerous grants and producing research publications. Tim’s main area of teaching is hospitality management where an applied teaching focus sees an intersection of traditional classroom teaching and industry engagement.

Nguyen Thi Thanh An is the Country Manager of ACIAR Vietnam. She is based in Hanoi. She joined ACIAR in December 2007 as an Assistant Country Manager and became Country Manager in 2014. An has extensive experience as a professional communicator, working in both private and public sectors. She completed her master’s degree at the University of Queensland in 2013, with a major in Communications for Development. An was awarded the Australian Public Service Medal in 2020 for her contribution to the development of the Australian-Vietnamese relation in agricultural research.

Professor Andy Hall conducts research on the systemic nature of innovation (particularly in the agri-food sector) and specifically exploring how the capacity of innovation systems can be strengthened to direct innovation at societal scale challenges that demand a balanced growth agenda addressing social, economic and environmental sustainability. Most of this research has been conducted in emerging economies in Asia and Africa.

Since completing his PhD in 1994 in Science and Technology Policy Studies at the University Sussex, UK, Professor Hall has held a number of research and advisory positions including: the Natural Resources Institute, UK; the CGIAR in India; the United Nations University, the Netherlands; The Open University, UK; and, for the last 9 years, as a Senior Principal Scientist at Australia’s National Science agency, CSIRO.

Minh-Ngoc’s main research interests lie in Bayesian methodology and statistical machine learning. He specialises in fast Variational Bayes and simulation-based methods, such as importance sampling and sequential Monte Carlo, for estimating complex models with Big Data, and in Lasso-type variable selection methods.

Professor Long D. Nghiem is Co-founder and President of the Vietnamese Australian Scholars & Experts Association (VASEA). He is Professor & Director of the Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater; University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

As the Director of the Centre for Technology in Water & Wastewater at UTS, Prof Nghiem provides research leadership and vision to guide the research activities of CTWW with over 20 full time academic core members. Major research strengths of CTWW include water infrastructure, water sensitive urban design, bio-engineering and microbiology technologies, and water & waste treatment technologies. His current research work centres around the Water – Energy nexus with a focus on the development and implementation of sustainable water infrastructure in both urban and rural environment.

Prof Nghiem leads the contribution from UTS as a tier 1 Research Partner to the CRC SAAFE – Solving Antimicrobial Resistance in Agribusiness, Food and Environments. Approved by the Commonwealth Government in 2023, CRC SAAFE addresses the impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) on Australia’s businesses with a focus on agriculture, food processing, environmental water, and water reuse. CRC SAAFE also deliver critical research work aligned with Australia’s National AMR Strategy.

Prof Nghiem’s work is motivated by the desire to develop, and transfer new knowledge, skills, and technologies that improve the provision of clean water and purification of wastewater in service to society. In addition to his work in Australia, Prof Nghiem has served as a Water Expert on behalf of the Australian Water Association and the Department of Foreign Affair and Trade to support the development of water infrastructure and sanitation policy in the region.

Prof Nghiem has Google h-index of over 100. He has supervised to completion 24 PhD and 11 MPhil students. Prof Nghiem currently serves as a co-Editor-in-chief of Environmental Technology & Innovation and an Editor of Journal of Membrane Science published by Elsevier.

Prof Nghiem’s contribution to research and education has been recognised by several international and industry awards. Examples include: an August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professorship at the Technical University of Munich (2016); Research Award from Bio-energy Australia (2019); and Outstanding Scientist Award from the International Bio-processing Association (2022).

Dr Linh Nguyen is an Honorary Associate and an academic in the Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Discipline, the University of Sydney Business School. Linh’s research interests include social entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship and social impact assessment. Linh teaches courses in the domains of strategy, innovation and (social entrepreneurship) to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Linh's research and educational endeavours are directed towards instigating positive transformations within underserved communities in Vietnam. She has been engaged in a variety of research, training and outreach projects aimed at fostering the social and economic participation of disadvantaged populations including people with disabilities, women, young people residing in marginalized areas in the country.

Linh is a member of the Sydney Vietnam Academic Network, a multidisciplinary group of academics supporting collaborative research and education in Vietnam. Her work exemplifies her dedication to generating meaningful insights that resonate with both academic and societal realms.

Christopher Morley is the current Trade & Investment Commissioner, Vietnam at Austrade based in Hanoi.

Chris commenced as Trade Commissioner Hanoi in July 2022. In Vietnam, Chris has lead responsibility for promoting Australian capacity in agribusiness, food & beverage, services & technology, infrastructure, health, defence and advanced manufacturing.

Chris has worked with a broad range of Austrade clients supporting their market entry and market growth strategies, focusing on a client first – outcome driven approach.
Prior to his Hanoi posting, Chris was based in San Francisco, leading the government’s Agricultural Business Expansion Innovative roll out in North America; and for 5 years prior to joining Austrade, Chris led a successful business selling food and wine into China via eCommerce and traditional channels.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and a Bachelor of Business Management from Victoria University.

Mr Pike has been Executive Director, International at RMIT University since December 2022, overseeing the university's global strategy and partnerships in the Asia Pacific region. Formerly the Chief Global Adviser and Director Global Strategy at RMIT from February 2019, he played a key role in enhancing the institution's international engagement. Mr Pike co-founded the Australia Vietnam Policy Institute in 2022, a pioneering public policy hub fostering collaboration and impact in the Australia-Vietnam relationship. His distinguished career includes senior roles with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), notably as Minister and Deputy Head of Mission for the Australian Embassy in Vietnam. During his tenure, he elevated the bilateral relationship to a strategic partnership and facilitated APEC Leaders Week in 2017. Mr Pike's expertise spans policy, development cooperation, and legal affairs, supported by his legal qualifications and memberships in advisory boards. Currently, he contributes to the University of Melbourne and the Australia Vietnam Young Leadership Dialogue.

Professor Robyn Ward AM FAHMS joined the University of Sydney in July 2018 as the inaugural Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health. She was the former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Executive Dean (Acting) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Queensland.

Professor Ward is an academic leader, cancer researcher and medical oncologist. She chairs the Commonwealth Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC), and serves on the Council and Executive of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In 2013 she was made Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to medical research and patient care in the field of oncology.

Dr Quang Nguyen Ngo is currently the Acting Director of the Administration of Science, Technology and Training, Ministry of Health, Vietnam. He is also the director of the Central Project Management Unit of the Health Professional Education and Training for Health System Reform Project, one of the most important and biggest projects of the health sector in Vietnam, using loans from the World Bank and non-refundable funding from the EU Delegation to Vietnam.

Starting his diploma education in medicine in Thainguyen Medical University, Dr Quang Nguyen has obtained higher education and qualifications in Public Health and Clinical Trial in reputable universities in Vietnam, Thailand (Mahidol University) United Kingdom (Oxford University) and the United States (Harvard University).

Dr Quang Nguyen was designated by the Minister of Health to play a critical role in the grassroots healthcare network development scheme, the most critical and prominent scheme of the health sector in this period. He is also the head of new drugs – new technologies development and clinical trial division in the Ministry of Health of Vietnam.

His Excellency Bui The Duy is currently the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Wollongong University, Australia, and a PhD in Computer Science from Twente University, Netherlands. From 2004 to 2014, he worked in various roles in the Vietnam National University in Hanoi. In 2014, he joined the Ministry of Science and Technology as Chief of the Office, and was promoted to his current role as Deputy Minister of Science and Technology in 2018.

Liza Noonan is Executive Director in the Innovation Districts branch of the Greater Cities Commission with specific responsibility for Tech Central, Westmead and Macquarie Park Innovation Districts. Liza is passionate about innovation as a driver for economic development and resilience; particularly science-based innovation and the growth it can generate while doing good for society and the environment. She is a leader in deep tech venture creation, research commercialisation at scale and the application of science and technology in international diplomacy.

Before joining the GCC Liza was with CSIRO in a number of roles, notably Director Global with 4 years-based in Singapore, where she was also the Australian Counsellor for Science and Innovation; Director of Venture Creation and founder of the ON Accelerator. Liza was also the first CEO of Springboard Enterprises in Australia supporting female founders raise growth capital.

Tiho Ancev is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He holds degrees from Saints Cyril and Methodius University (Bachelor), University of Iceland (Master) and Oklahoma State University (PhD).

His main research areas are agricultural, environmental, natural resource and energy economics. Tiho’s main contributions have been in water economics and policy, economics of energy, economics of air pollution and climate change policies, and economics of precision agriculture and agricultural input use. Tiho has led and contributed to national and international research projects in these research areas. He is currently the Managing Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Ms Pham Ngoc Yen has a background in Sociology and gained a Master of Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Before joining the Woolcock Institute, she specialized in health-seeking behavior, HIV/AIDS, childcare, education, communication and capacity building. She has 6 years of experience working in the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research as a Study Manager who led the implementation of several studies and clinical trials on chronic lung diseases, antimicrobial resistance and smoking cessation. She has officially joined the University of Sydney from 2023 and work with the Sydney Vietnam Academic Network to set up Sydney Vietnam Institute in Vietnam, while continues leading the implementation of some TB clinical trials in Vietnam.

Deanna is a chemist and Director of the Net Zero Initiative at the University of Sydney. She received her BSc (Hons) in 2001 and her PhD in Chemistry from James Cook University in 2006. She held a brief postdoctoral position at the University of Sydney before venturing to the United States to undertake a postdoctoral position with Professor Jeff Long at the University of California, Berkeley from 2007–2009 as a Dow Chemical Company Fellow of the American-Australian Association and a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow. Deanna returned to Australia in 2010 as a University of Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellow and L’Oréal for Women in Science Fellow in the School of Chemistry. In 2011, she received an Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship which allowed her to start building her own research group exploring electronic and optical properties of inorganic materials, along with their applications in energy-related fields.

Sonja van Wichelen is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, and Deputy Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. Her research takes place on the cross-disciplinary node of law, life, and science in a globalizing world. She is currently working on the postcolonial politics of bioscience governance in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Indonesia. She held postdoctoral positions in the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University (2007–2009), the Pembroke Center at Brown University (2009–2010), and the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney (2010–2014) before joining the University of Sydney in 2015. She also held a visiting appointment with the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California-Berkeley (2017) and was a Member with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2020–2021). Sonja is convenor of the Biopolitics of Science Research Network. She has published four books, is co-editor of the Palgrave MacMillan Biolegalities Book Series, and is on the editorial boards of Science, Technology, & Human Values, The Sociological Review, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.

Lam Tuong Vi Tran is an alumnus of the University of Sydney who is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Aquatic Health at the University of Queensland. Her study focuses on developing alternative and more sustainable solutions for treating major diseases in aquatic species, starting from her home country Vietnam. Her talks today presents insightful findings from a qualitative study that explores Vietnam's catfish farming's challenges in terms of diseases, biosecurity, and vaccination.

Dr Jonathon Hutchinson is the Chair of Discipline of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. He is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council LIEF project The International Digital Policy Observatory, and is also a Chief Investigator on the eSafety Commission Research project, Emerging online safety issues: co-creating social media education with young people. For 2023 and 2024, he holds the prestigious position of President of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association and is the current Editor in Chief of the Policy & Internet Journal. His most recent book, Digital Intermediation: Unseen infrastructure for cultural production is available through Routledge.

Dr Diep Nguyen currently works as Research Fellow at the Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between the University of Sydney and Cancer Council NSW. She has medical background from Viet Nam (1992–1998), Master of International Public Health (2003–2004), and Doctor of Philosophy (2014–2018) from Australia.

Dr Diep Nguyen’s research currently focused on modelling the impact of cervical cancer prevention and control strategies. She has been involved in modelled evaluations of HPV vaccination and cervical screening for Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific islands, as well as for the World Health Organization. She previously has been involved across different research areas, including a clinical trial to evaluate immunogenicity and reactogenicity of alternative schedules of HPV vaccine, willingness to pay for HPV vaccine, and costing studies of HPV vaccination, cervical screening, diagnosis, and treatment of cervical cancer in Vietnam (2007–2014).

Jane researches innovative, social and environmental approaches to sustainable contemporary creative practices to discover their shared value across the community through international industry and community collaborations. Her practice is at the nexus of material culture, material science and our environment. Jane’s 2019, consultancy work for UNESCO produced the Manufacturing Creativity exhibition in Vietnam. Jane is an experienced teacher in visual art, creativity and leadership, a former Associate Dean Learning and Teaching and member of Sydney Southeast Asia, China Studies, and CREATE University research centres. Jane is a founding member of the Sydney Vietnam Institute and member of her faculty teaching advisory.

Professor Joel Negin is the Acting Deputy Executive Dean (Academic) for the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. He served almost eight years as the Head of the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney between 2015 and 2023. His current research focuses on health system development, infectious disease and the intersection of ecology and health.

Professor Negin maintains ongoing research and collaborations in Vietnam, Fiji, India and Indonesia. Before moving to Australia, he was awarded degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities and then worked for six years in sub-Saharan Africa on various health and development programs.

Ambassador Thành presented credentials to the Governor-General and became Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam to the Commonwealth of Australia on November 27, 2020. He is also accredited to the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Republic of Vanuatu.

As a career diplomat, he had been Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Việt Nam to the Kingdom of Thailand (March 2013 - June 2017) and Deputy Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the United Nations, New York (January 2005 to January 2008).

Starting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990, Ambassador Thành had been working for, inter alia, the ministry’s Cabinet, the department of Multilateral economic cooperation, the ASEM 2004 and APEC 2017 national secretariats, and the department of South-east Asia, South Asia and South Pacific.

He had been engaged in various bilateral and multilateral negotiations, including the bilateral trade agreement (BTA) with the United States, Việt Nam’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), ASEAN’s free trade agreements with various partners, Việt Nam - EU Partnership and cooperation agreement (PCA), EU – Việt Nam free trade agreement (EVFTA) and the Comprehensive and progressive trans-Pacific partnership agreement (CPTPP). After serving as Deputy Director-General for 12 years, he became Director-General in 2013.

Ambassador Thành pursued his BA and post-graduate studies in Việt Nam, Ukraine, Switzerland, Japan and the United States. Born in Hà Nội in 1965, he is married with two children.