Mr. Nguyen Duc Thanh has been Founder and Director of the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR), University of Economics and Business (UEB), Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam since 2008.

His main research interests are Macroeconomics, Macroeconomic Policy, Economic Growth and Structural Change, Dynamics of Migration and the Brain Drain, Computable General Equilibrium Modeling. He was head of Research and Cooperation, Centre for Development Economics and Public Policy (CDEPP), National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam from May to July 2007.

Since October 2011 he has been the member of the Vietnam Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Group.

Mr. Thanh was born in 1977. He holds his Master’s Degree in Development Economics from The Vietnam-Netherlands Project for Master’s Program in Development Economics, Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands & National Economics University, Vietnam in 2001 and his Phd’s Degree in Development Economics in the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan in 2008.