CV --- THAO TRANG NGUYEN

PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS

UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Boschstraat 24
6221 AX Maastricht

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and United Nations University
PhD Researcher
2020–Present

Seoul National University (South Korea)
Visiting Researcher
October 2023

Tay Nguyen University (Vietnam)
Lecturer
2015–Present

EDUCATION

Indiana University
Master in Public Policy
2017–2019

Foreign Trade University
Bachelor in International Business Economics
2010–2014

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Bank Expansion, Firm Performance and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Vietnam
• Automation Adoption and Reshoring: Evidence from Asian Input-Output Table
• Automation Adoption and Export Performance: Evidence from French firms
  (with Giacomo Domini, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella, and Tania Treibich)
• Special Economic Zones and Firm Performance: Evidence from Vietnam
  (with Karsten Mau and Tania Treibich)
• Social Network and Economic Development

AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• CatChain Fellowship, Seoul National University
  September 2023 – October 2023
• Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries,
  Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany
  September 2023
• UNCTAD YSI Summer School
  August 2023
• PILLARS Fellowship, “Labor Market Effects of Automation and Technology Adoption in the Global Economy”
  June 2023
• The World Bank and Asia School of Business Fellowship, “Trade and Global Value Chains in Times of Insecurity”
  May 2023
• Economics of AI Workshop, NBER
  October 2021
• PhD Scholarship, UNU-MERIT, United Nations University
  2020–Present
• Ronald Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis
  Cancelled
• Teaching Fellowship, Indiana University
  January 2019 – May 2019
• Martin Luther King Civil Rights Immersion Trip, Indiana University
  January 2019
• Vietnam Young Leader Workshop, Indiana University
  October 2018
• Vietnam Young Leaders Award, Vietnamese Government
  2017–2019
• Young Southeast Asian Leaders Fellowship, US Department of State
  2015
• Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Foreign Trade University
  2013

PRESENTATIONS

• ADB, YSEALI Academy, Fulbright University
  Female Entrepreneurship 2024
  September 2024
• EEA-ESEM Rotterdam, Netherlands
  August 2024
• DRUID Nice, France
  June 2024
• UNU-MERIT PhD Conference
  March 2024
• 18th East Asian Economic Association International Conference
  October 2023
• Advancing Sustainability of Critical Supply Chains in Developing Countries,
  Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany
  September 2023
• UNU-MERIT Internal Conference
  September 2023
• 13th Bari Conference on “Economics of Global Interactions”
  September 2023
• 6th Annual UNCTAD YSI Summer School
  August 2023
• PILLARS Fellowship Workshop, “Labor Market Effects of Automation and Technology Adoption in the Global Economy”
  June 2023
• The World Bank and Asia School of Business Workshop, “Trade and Global Value Chains in Times of Insecurity”
  May 2023
• DRUID PhD Academy
  January 2023
• UNU-MERIT Internal Conference
  September 2022
• European Trade Study Group (ETSG), Groningen
  September 2022
• 16th Summer Academy, “Innovation, Digitalization and Sustainability”
  July 2022
• Ronald Coase Institute Workshop on Institutional Analysis
  Cancelled
• Seminar on Economics Publications, Tay Nguyen University
  November 2019

CONSULTING PROJECTS

• Female Entrepreneurship in Vietnam
  July 2024 – September 2024
• Innovation and Structural Change in Asia, ADB and UNU-MERIT
  November 2020 – February 2021
• E-Government Initiative for Vietnamese Government
  2018
• Empowering Vietnamese Women Entrepreneurs
  2018
• Bloomington (Indiana) Speedway Project
  2018
• Lesson Plans on Leadership for Vietnamese Government Leaders
  2018
• Eco-Efficiency in Smallholder Systems, Central Highlands of Vietnam
  2016

OTHER SERVICE

• Organizing Committee, 19th International Study Group on Exports and Productivity
  November 2023 – June 2024
• Secretary of Youth Union for Class of Lecturers, Tay Nguyen University
  September 2019 – July 2020
• Academic Advisor, Tay Nguyen University
  September 2019 – July 2020

TEACHING

• Maastricht University
  Tutor, International Trade
  Period 4, 2023 and 2024
  Tutor, Economics and Society in Asia
  Period 2, 2024
• UNU-MERIT
  Tutor, Research Methods
  Period 2, 2024
• Indiana University
  Tutor, Data Analysis and Modelling
  Spring 2019
• Tay Nguyen University
  Lecturer, Microeconomics
  2016–2019
  Lecturer, Organizational Economics
  2019
  Tutor, Microeconomics
  2015–2019

SELECTED NON-ACADEMIC WRITING

• Bridging the Knowledge Chasm: Policy and Academia
  (MORSE blog, January 2024)