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OUR LEADING MEMBERS
Ms. Nguyen Thi My Tien
Standing Vice President
Ms. Nguyen Thi My Tien is currently Standing Vice President of the Ho Chi Minh City Peace and Development Foundation (HPDF)
- She has been a member of HPDF since its creation
- Executive Member of the Vietnam Peace and Development Foundation (VPDF)
- Member of the standing committee of the HCMC Peace and Development Foundation (HPDF)
- Executive Member of the HCMC Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO)
- Secretary General of HUFO from 2007 to 2011
- Ms. Tien holds a Master degree in Development Management (MDM) from the Asian Institute of Management (Philippines)
Ms. Tran Thi Hieu Hanh
Vice President
Ms. Tran Thi Hieu Hanh is Vice President of HPDF, in charge of the Orange Initiative Program, including the OI – Tam Viet Scholarship.
She was Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of Viet Nam in San Francisco (2012-2015), Deputy Director General of the Ho Chi Minh City Extenal Relations Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2009 – 2012, 2016 – 2017).
Ms. Hanh holds a Master’s Degree in International Development Policy form Duke University (USA)
Dr. Nguyen Ba Son
Vice President
PhD: International Law, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1985)
Member – Former President of the Vietnam Society of International Law (VSIL)
Member of the Executive Committee of HCMC Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO)
He worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam for over 39 years, from 1974 to 2013, successively as Director General of Department of International Law and Treaties; Ambassador – Permanent Representative of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to the International Organizations In Vienna – Austria. Nguyen Ba Son has also been very actively teaching international law in several local universitites, writing as an editor in chief or a sole author of research papres, monographs, textbooks and articles on internaional law subjects.
Ms. Le Thi Kim Hong
Vice President
Former Officer of the Department of Cultural Affairs and UNESCO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former First Secretary of the Viet Nam Delegation to UNESCO’ in Paris Ms. Hong joined HPDF in 2016 with an experience of 25 years working as a specialist of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO (1998-2008). Her active involvement in the Foundation also largely benefits from her study of Master in Public Policy (NUS, Singapore, 1996-1997)
Ms. Tran Thi Nguyet Sa
General secretary
- Vice Chair | Viet Nam – UK Friendship Association
MA in International Communications and Development from City University London, UK
Fellowship in Arts Management from DeVos Institute for Arts Management at Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, USA
Tran Thi Nguyet Sa has been a news editor and producer at HCMC Television and the BBC World Service in London. She later worked as Head of PR and Programming at Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera; and Programme Consultant for Transposition Programme Norway, a partnership scheme to support the development of Viet Nam’s major classical music institutions. In her jobs she has opportunities to take part in many cultural and philanthropic projects. She founded Saigon Chamber Music, a summer intensive programme for young musicians in 2014 and managed to take it through 5 impactful seasons before Covid broke out in 2020. She is also an educator who creates and delivers two programmes in Music Appreciation at various Universities in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Ho Chi Minh City Peace and Development Foundation was established by the decision of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, which is a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organizations (HUFO). The foundation operates on a voluntary, non-profit basis.
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