Quan Le is First Secretary and Consul of Vietnam Embassy in Manila for three years

Created by:

Sr.Col Luong was appointed to be Defense Attaches of Vietnam to the Philippines in December 2024. He has been working for years in the Institute for Defense International Relations. His background of research was international security issues, defense relations, and defense and security cooperation frameworks. He is interested in and has been engaged in many maritime forums.

Created by:

Senior Colonel Tran Hoai Nam is Deputy Director of the Institute for Defence International Relations, Ministry of Defence. He is responsible for researching national strategies and give the predictions about the security and relations between the countries in the political, economic contexts

Created by:

Pham Ngoc Minh Trang is a research fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, based in Heidelberg, Germany. Her work at the Max Planck Foundation includes delivering capacity-building workshops on the law of the sea topics for officials from the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA). Trang was also a Fulbright visiting scholar at New York University in 2019 and a Nippon fellow at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in 2015. Her research and publications primarily focus on dispute settlement mechanisms in the law of the sea, with a particular emphasis on resolutions for the South China Sea disputes, and ocean governance in the Indo-Pacific region.

Created by:

Major General Tran Van Luong is Vice Commandant and concurrently Chief of Staff of the Vietnam Coast Guard. With his position, he directly commands the VCG vessels and advisory agencies within the force to maintain security and safety at sea in Vietnam as well as the region

Created by:

Created by:

Nguyen Thi Lan Huong is Director of the Center for International Law, East Sea Institute, Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam (DAV) since 2022. She was Deputy Director of the Center for International Cooperation, East Sea Institute, DAV from 2020 to 2022.
Her research field is Public International Law and the Law of the Sea. She got her bachelor in International Relations, specialised in International Law in the Institute of International Relations in Viet Nam (2007); LLM in International and European Law in the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) (2011) and PhD in International Law in the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam (2023).

Created by:

Dr. Van T. Pham initiated the founding and manages the South China Sea Chronicle Initiative (SCSCI), the first non-profit, non-governmental research initiative in Vietnam that is dedicated to promoting a fact-based and multidimensional understanding of the South China Sea disputes. The SCSCI has been striving for innovation in Vietnam, including the first Vietnam-based study led by Pham since 2019 to utilise technology for systematically tracking and promoting transparency of activities at sea. Their efforts have been featured on various expert platforms, research publications and media worldwide. The SCSCI continues to advocate for maritime transparency, fact-based understanding and rules-based collaborative solutions.

Dr. Pham holds a Ph.D in natural science from Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany. She is the author or co-author of several book chapters and articles in major newspapers and professional forums, focusing on legal aspects and developments of the South China Sea disputes. Her interdisciplinary approach combines scientific thinking with legal analysis to contribute to understanding of important regional maritime issues.

Created by:

Dr. Lai Thai Binh is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the Philippines. He served as a Deputy Director-General of the East Sea (South China Sea) Institute (Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam), the Deputy Consul-General of Vietnam in Houston, Deputy Director-General and Assistant Director-General at Americas Department in the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the American research division, Director and Deputy Director of the North America division, and as a Vietnam-U.S. relations desk officer. He earned a BA in international economics from Hanoi Foreign Trade University and a Ph.D. in International relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam.

Created by:

Dr. Vu Hai Dang is an Expert at the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam. His area of expertise includes international law, law of the sea, and international environmental law with a geographical focus on Southeast Asia and the South China Sea. He has experience working in the fields of private practice, civil service, diplomacy, and academia.

Created by: