Dr. Huynh Trung Dung (“Yoong”) is a Senior Fellow at the ASEAN Studies Centre, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. His research focuses on Southeast Asian geopolitics, the South China Sea, Vietnamese foreign policy, and ASEAN. His research and policy analysis have appeared in RAND, ISEAS’ Fulcrum, The Diplomat, Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, 38 North, and Routledge. He also co-authored a report on developing Vietnam’s human resources for the semiconductor industry. Before joining ISEAS, Dung taught geopolitics and public policy at Fulbright University Vietnam and served as Lead Faculty for Public Policy at the YSEALI Academy. He previously worked at the RAND Corporation on Chinese gray-zone activities, maritime coercion, U.S. alliances and partnerships in Asia, and Vietnamese defense and security. Earlier, he taught at the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program and RMIT University Vietnam, following eight years of service in Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dr. Huynh Trung Dung (“Yoong”) is a Senior Fellow at the ASEAN Studies Centre, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. His research focuses on Southeast Asian geopolitics, the South China Sea, Vietnamese foreign policy, and ASEAN. His research and policy analysis have appeared in RAND, ISEAS’ Fulcrum, The Diplomat, Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, 38 North, and Routledge. He also co-authored a report on developing Vietnam’s human resources for the semiconductor industry. Before joining ISEAS, Dung taught geopolitics and public policy at Fulbright University Vietnam and served as Lead Faculty for Public Policy at the YSEALI Academy. He previously worked at the RAND Corporation on Chinese gray-zone activities, maritime coercion, U.S. alliances and partnerships in Asia, and Vietnamese defense and security. Earlier, he taught at the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program and RMIT University Vietnam, following eight years of service in Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Vietnam’s AI Strategy in the Agentic Era
Vietnam’s AI strategy can seek strategic autonomy through an internationally connected yet domestically anchored ecosystem able to adapt and substitute technologies amid US–China competition and rapid advances in agentic AI.
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Mouna Aouri is an Institute Fellow at the Tech For Good Institute. As a social entrepreneur, impact investor, and engineer, her experience spans over two decades in the MENA region, South East Asia, and Japan. She is founder of Woomentum, a Singapore-based platform dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs in APAC through skill development and access to growth capital through strategic collaborations with corporate entities, investors and government partners.
Senior Fellow & Founding Executive Director
Dr Ming Tan is Senior Fellow at the Tech for Good Institute; where she served as founding Executive Director of the non-profit focused on research and policy at the intersection of technology, society and the economy in Southeast Asia. She is concurrently a Senior Fellow at and the Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore and Advisor to the Founder of the COMO Group, a Singaporean portfolio of lifestyle companies operating in 15 countries worldwide. Ming was previously Managing Director of IPOS International, part of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. Prior to joining the public sector, she was Head of Stewardship of the COMO Group.
Ming also serves on the boards of several private companies, Singapore’s National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC), and on the Digital and Technology Advisory Panel for Esplanade–Theatres on the Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts centre. Her current portfolio spans philanthropy, social impact, sustainability and innovation.
