Instructors
Professor Dwight Perkins
Faculty Chair, Vietnam Program; Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy
Professor Perkins is former Chair of the Economics Department at Harvard University. He led the Harvard Institute for International Development for fifteen years (1980-1995). He is a leading expert on the industrialization of East Asia and has authored or edited twelve books on the region’s economic history and development. Professor Perkins has served as an advisor or consultant on economic policy and reform to the governments of Korea, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. At his initiative Harvard began its engagement with Vietnam in the late 1980s. He has been a contributing aurthor of several Harvard studies of the Vietnamese economy including
In Search of the Dragon’s Trail (1994) and Choosing Success (2008).
Professor David Dapice
Vietnam Program Economist; Professor of Economic, Tufts University
Professor Dapice is a leading expert on the economic development of Southeast Asia and has worked extensively in Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. He was principal advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance when this country enjoyed its period of rapid growth. He has studied the Vietnamese economy since the late 1980s. Professor Dapice’s expertise on matters of economic policy is regularly sought by the Vietnamese government. He was the lead author of the Vietnam Program’s recent policy analysis report, Choosing Success.
Dr. Vu Thanh Tu Anh
Director of Research, Fulbright School; Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Dr. Vu Thanh Tu Anh is an economist at the Fulbright School in Ho Chi Minh City. His research focuses on public finance, and the reform of state-owned and equitized enterprises. Dr. Tu Anh’s analysis of Vietnamese economic policy appears in international journals and in Vietnam’s most influential media outlets. He regularly consults for the Vietnamese government on economic policy. He is a Vietnamese citizen and was educated in Vietnam and the United States.
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh
Director of Public Policy Program, Fulbright School
Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Mr. Thanh is a senior policy analyst at the Fulbright School in Ho Chi Minh City. His research focuses on infrastructure development and the regulation of monopolies. Mr. Thanh has participated in a number of policy dialogues with the Vietnamese leadership. He has designed and delivered executive programs for senior Vietnamese officials. Mr. Thanh has consulted to the Cambodian government on economic reform. He is a Vietnamese citizen and was educated in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Dr. Jonathan Pincus
Economist, Vietnam Program;Dean, Fulbright School
Dr. Pincus is a development economist specializing in Southeast Asia. Prior to joining the Vietnam Program, Dr. Pincus was Senior Country Economist, UNDP Vietnam, where he designed and implemented UNDP’s policy advisory and dialogue projects with the Vietnamese government. Before his UNDP assignment he was a lecturer in economics and faculty chair of the masters program in economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has authored a number of articles and books on economic development.
Dr. Arnold Howitt
Executive Director, Ash Institute, Harvard Kennedy School
Dr. Howitt is a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has significant experience designing executive programs for senior government officials from around the world. He is faculty cochair of the executive program on Crisis Management and of the Kennedy School’s program for training senior Chinese officials. His research focuses on emergency preparedness and crisis management and transportation and environmental regulation. He is currently studying strategies for reducing motor vehicle air pollution in China. Dr. Howitt was educated in the US.
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