Dr Hang Pham

Dr. Pham Thi Thu Hang is the Chair of Council for Science and Technology and served as Secretary General of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry from July 2011 until 2017. She was the Director of SME Promotion Center of VCCI from 2001 until 2013 and Director of Enterprise Development Foundation – an R& D unit of VCCI from 2004 to the present. Dr. Hang has managed numerous SME development, supporting industries, supplier chain and women entrepreneurship projects implemented by VCCI in collaboration with World Bank Group, ADB UNIDO, ILO, UNDP, WHO, DFID, USAID, GIZ, JICA. She is a member of UNCDF-SHIFT Investment Committee; judging member of ASEAN Business Awards since 2007; Member of Executing Committee of National Program on Eco-System for Start-up; National Advisory Council For Corporate Governance; National Advisory Council for Tourism Development. Dr. Hang is the Chief Editor of 11 series of “Vietnam Annual Business Reports’’ of the years 2006-2017 and leading a number of market research and publications on SMEs, innovation, poverty reduction. She has been co-author of some research papers published by World Bank, ILO, IDS (Brighton, UK) on SMEs, Light Industry, Local Economic Development and member of Editing Board of Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research. Dr. Hang has got a Labor Medal of Third Class by President of Vietnam and three Award Certificates by Prime Minister of Vietnam.