Dr. Nguyen Minh Thao is Deputy Head of the Department of Business Development, National Institute for Economics and Finance (NIEF), Vietnam. She is an expert in the business environment, technology, and digitalization policies. She is also the key drafter of Vietnam’s National Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution by 2030.
In the third part of our 6-part series on Tech Governance in Southeast Asia, Dr. Thao Nguyen Minh from Vietnam's Central Institute
Dr. Nguyen Minh Thao is Deputy Head of the Department of Business Development, National Institute for Economics and Finance (NIEF), Vietnam. She is an expert in the business environment, technology, and digitalization policies. She is also the key drafter of Vietnam’s National Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution by 2030.
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Governance Meets Reality: Vietnam’s Evolving Tech Governance
In the third of our six-part country spotlight series under Tech Governance in Southeast Asia-6, Dr. Nguyen Minh Thao, Policy Expert at the National Institute for Economics and Finance (NIEF), Ministry of Finance, examines the major developments shaping Vietnam's tech landscape and governance framework in mid- 2026.
Rules in Action: Vietnam’s Evolving Tech Governance
For the next part of our 6-part series on Tech Governance in Southeast Asia, Dr. Nguyen Minh Thao of the National Institute for Economics and Finance (NIEF), Vietnam, unpacks the key developments shaping Vietnam's tech landscape in the first half of 2025. Key developments include the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) to establish a solid legal foundation for data security, and a significant organisational restructuring that merged the Ministry of Information and Communications with the Ministry of Science and Technology to enhance enforcement.
Improving the Regulatory Framework for Tech Governance: The Key to Achieving High Growth in Vietnam
Breakthroughs in technology and digital transformation are set to drive Vietnam's economic growth. In this article, Dr. Nguyen Minh Thao, Former Head of Business Environment and Competitiveness Research at CIEM, and Dr. Nguyen Quoc Viet, expert in Public Policy at VNU explore the need for a regulatory framework to foster innovation.
Read the Vietnamese version of this article.
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Rules in Action: Vietnam’s Evolving Tech Governance
For the next part of our 6-part series on Tech Governance in Southeast Asia, Dr. Nguyen Minh Thao of the National Institute for Economics and Finance (NIEF), Vietnam, unpacks the key developments shaping Vietnam's tech landscape in the first half of 2025. Key developments include the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) to establish a solid legal foundation for data security, and a significant organisational restructuring that merged the Ministry of Information and Communications with the Ministry of Science and Technology to enhance enforcement.
Improving the Regulatory Framework for Tech Governance: The Key to Achieving High Growth in Vietnam
Breakthroughs in technology and digital transformation are set to drive Vietnam's economic growth. In this article, Dr. Nguyen Minh Thao, Former Head of Business Environment and Competitiveness Research at CIEM, and Dr. Nguyen Quoc Viet, expert in Public Policy at VNU explore the need for a regulatory framework to foster innovation.
Read the Vietnamese version of this article.
Shaping the Digital Future: Regulatory Updates from Vietnam
In the third part of our 6-part series on Tech Governance in Southeast Asia, Dr. Thao Nguyen Minh from Vietnam's Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) delves deeply into Vietnam's tech governance landscape for the first half of 2024.
Read the Vietnamese version of this article.
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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.
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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.
