Our Keynote Speakers
Professor Hong Bui
Professor Hong T. M. Bui has a broad social science background, including economics, education, communication, management, and various methodologies in both qualitative and quantitative research. Her research focuses on learning organization, organizational studies, and an interdisciplinary approach to innovation and sustainability. Hong served as an associate editor for The Learning Organization and now for Applied Psychology: An International Review.
Hong has worked for five different universities in the UK, including the University of Southampton (ranked among the top 100 world universities) and the University of Bath (ranked among the top 10 UK universities). She also worked for the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, for seven years before embarking on her academic career in the UK, which spanned 20 years. She has extensive experience working in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams on global challenges, including decarbonization, smart cities, healthcare management, energy, agricultural innovation, entrepreneurship, migration, and tourism development, both between the UK and the Global South, as well as within the Global North.
Forbes Vietnam named Hong to its list of 20 Inspiring Women 2021. The Public Administration Review journal in 2014 reviewed her as a “talented researcher” and “leading scholar”. She has also received various teaching and research awards in her career.
Hong has developed numerous leaders for higher education, the public, and the private sector worldwide. She is passionate about nurturing the next generation of students and early-career faculty members who will collectively transform society toward innovation and sustainability. She welcomes doctoral and post-doctoral candidates who wish to make a difference in society.
Associate Professor Tran Thanh Nam
Dr. Tran Thanh Nam is the Vice Rector and a lecturer at the University of Education – Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He earned his Ph.D. with Distinction and his Master’s Degree with Merit from Vanderbilt University, USA. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Merit from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. With over 15 years of experience in psychology, Dr. Nam has been deeply involved in psychological counseling and therapeutic practice. He is a member of the Vietnam Association of Psychology and Education and currently serves as a therapeutic consultant for OPTUM in Vietnam. He has worked at various institutions, including the Career Information and Psychological Counseling Center, Joseph Center, Behavioral Health Intellectual Disability Clinic, Associated Psychiatrists of Nashville, Military Hospital 103, and the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital.
Professor Isabelle Roskam
Dr. Isabelle Roskam is currently a Professor of Developmental and Parenting psychology at UCLouvain, Belgium. Together with Professor Moira Mikolajczak, she leads the Training Institute for Psychology & Health at the University of Louvain. She previously worked for 10 years as a clinical researcher at the Saint Luc University Hospital in Brussels. Dr. Isabelle Roskam is recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers on the psychological concept of parental burnout in the field of parenting and family studies. Alongside Professor Moira Mikolajczak, she has introduced the concept to 50 countries. She has authored and published hundreds of academic articles and four books on the topic.
Associate Professor Le Van Canh
Dr. Le Van Canh has earned his Master’s Degree in TESOL from Saint Michael’s College (USA) and a Doctoral Degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Waikato (New Zealand). He is currently working for Tran Nhan Tong Institute of Vietnam National University, Hanoi on a contractual basis. Prior to this, he had worked as a teacher educator and teacher education researcher for more than forty years. He has published his research in international journals and edited volumes published by international publishers such as Routledge, Palgrave MacMillan, and Springer.
Our Plenary Speakers
Professor Ly Tran
Dr. Ly Tran is a Professor at the School of Education and Research for Educational Impact (REDI) centre, Deakin University, Australia. She was a lecturer at Hue University, Vietnam prior to coming to Australia. Her research focuses on international education, student mobilities, graduate employability, the geopolitics of international education, and the education-work-migration nexus. Her latest books include East and Southeast perspectives on the internationalisation of higher education (Routledge) with Tracy Zou and Hiroshi Ota and Internationalisation of the Curriculum: A Comparative Perspective across Australian and Vietnamese Universities (Routledge) with Huong Phan and Jill Blackmore. Ly is the Founder of the Australia-Vietnam International Education Centre. She was named as one of Australia and ASEAN’s ‘Top 50’ voices on international education in 2023. She received the Inaugural Melbourne Asia Game Changer Award from Asia Society Australia, and the Inaugural Shining Star Achievement in Research Award in the Noam Chomsky Global Connections Awards.
Associate Professor Nguyen Huu Cuong
Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Huu Cuong earned his Ph.D. in Education (Educational Policy and Leadership) from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2018. Prior to that, he completed a Master’s in Assessment and Evaluation at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2011. His research interests include assessment, quality assurance, accreditation, higher education policy, leadership, and management. Assoc. Prof. Cuong has a strong background in policy-making, evaluation, quality assurance, and accreditation for Vietnam’s higher education. He served as a policy-maker in quality assurance at the Vietnam Education Quality Management Agency (formerly the General Department of Education Testing and Accreditation), Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam, for 13 years. He was the adjunct Head of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation Department at VNU University of Education. From November 2019 to June 2021, he was Deputy Head of the Department of Testing and Quality Assessment and Chairman of the Science and Training Council of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. He also served as Director of the Quality Assurance Department at Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from September 2021 to the present. Currently, he is the Acting President of Phuong Dong University, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Dr. Ethan Trinh
Dr. Ethan Trinh (pronouns: they/them/their) is a Vietnamese, queer, immigrant, researcher, and teacher educator. They currently serve as the Associate Director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center, a Title VI National Resource Center, in partnership with The Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Trinh’s scholarship focuses on queer teacher’s emotions and well-being and explores how to embrace queerness as healing teaching and research practices. Dr. Trinh has published 5 edited books with Routledge, Brill & TESOL Press that highlight critical storytelling, doctoral students’ identities, emotional well-being, community, and queer allyship. They were the recipient of the 2022 Leadership Mentoring Program Award by the TESOL International Association and are the 2024-2025 Nominating Committee at TESOL International.
Professor Vina Adriany
Dr. Vina Adriany is a Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. She is currently a Director of the Southeast Asian Minister of Education Organization, Centre for Early Childhood Care Education and Parenting (SEAMEO CECCEP). Her scholarship focuses on the issues of gender and social justice in early childhood education (ECE), the construction of children and childhood in marginal communities, and the impact of neoliberalism in ECE. Her research mainly adopts theories that include feminist poststructuralism and postcolonialism. She has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on the issues. She is currently a co-editor at the Pedagogy, Culture, and Society Journal, Routledge. She is also an editorial board member of several journals, including Policy Futures in Education (SAGE), International Journal of Early Years Education (Routledge), Global Childhood Studies (SAGE), and Children and Society (Wiley). She was also a visiting scholar at several universities, including National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan, Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, Gothenburg University in Sweden, and Ankara University in Turkey