 Nguyen Xuan Thanh
Economist & Senior Lecturer
Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, Fulbright University Vietnam
Nguyen Xuan Thanh is a senior lecturer in public policy at the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management. From 2015 to 2023, Thanh was a senior fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as a member of the Vietnamese Prime Minister Economic Advisory Council. His research interests are macroeconomic management, cross-ownership in the banking sector, and financing infrastructure development. At the Fulbright School, Thanh teaches courses on Introduction to Public Policy, Appraisal of Public Investment, and Policy Implementation. He also teaches regularly in the Fulbright School’s executive education and participate in policy dialogues with public sector agencies in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Thanh earned a BA (Hons) in economics from Delhi University, an MSc in economics and finance from the University of Warwick, and an MPA from Harvard University. |
 Ky Nguyen
CEO/General Director, Cai Mep International Terminal
Ky is CEO of Cai Mep International Terminal, a joint venture of Danish APM Maersk Group and VIMC & Saigon Port. Ky spent 15 years in Senior Management of CMIT which is major deep-water container terminal in Cai Mep serving VN-US trade majorly and is the only termal being able to handle 20,000 TEu container vessel in Vietnam.
Ky has served 3 years as independent non-executive Board Director of Port of HaiPhong in the Northern Vietnam.
Ky is FTU graduate and has Maastricht MBA degree. Later Ky also graduated APMT Magnum Global Leadership Development program. |
 Anil Viswanathan
Vice President & Managing Director
Mondelez Kinh Do Vietnam
Anil Viswanathan is Vice President and Managing Director of Mondelez Kinh Do Vietnam. Anil is responsible for driving the Vietnam business while also being part of the SEA Leadership team. He has assumed this position from Sep 1, 2022. In the past 2 years, Anil has taken forward the Mondelez 2030 strategy in the country with Mondelez receiving external recognition in multiple forums for excellence in Growth, Marketing, Operations, Sustainability and Culture. Anil has been an active member representing Mondelez in AmCham, PRO, USABC VN, MMA and other executive networks.
Prior to this, Anil was the CMO at Mondelez India Foods Private Ltd. Anil was a part of the India BU Leadership Team and was responsible to drive a consolidated Snacking strategy with holistic management of all marketing levers, that included Insights, Analytics, Equity, Innovation and Activation, in line with Mondelez International’s “Local first, but not Local only”; approach to business. Anil also led the Consumer Digital practice for the business where he worked closely with the BU & Global technology teams in driving the digital transformation agenda for the business. In these years, Anil drove marketing and creative excellence with his teams & partner networks to create some of the most popular brand campaigns that won at multiple platforms like Effies India, Effies APAC, D&AD, One Show, MMA Smarties, IBLA etc. Most prominently at Cannes 2022 where the work on Cadbury Celebrations won India’s first ever Titanium Cannes Lion along with multiple other Cannes Lions. For his work, Anil has received the CMO of the year award in India at several ad forums.
Anil joined Mondelez India in May 2000 as a management trainee and has spent more than two decades in the company, across a variety of roles including Sales, Brand & Category marketing, Strategy and New Business Development. Over the last 20+ years, he has acquired several functional and shaping experiences across categories (Chocolates, Biscuits), functions (Sales, Marketing & Strategy) and geographies before returning to India in 2017. Anil was also a part of the Global Chocolate Team driving chocolate innovation based out of Zurich, Switzerland.
Anil holds an MBA in Marketing & Finance from IIM, Calcutta and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Madras. He is married to Sangeetha, who works in the Non-Profit sector and they have a 15-year-old daughter, Suhasini. |
 Binh Le Vandekerckove
Founder & CEO
ASART Deal Advisory
Binh founded ASART in 2017. She leads all aspects of our firm and is the head of our M&A and Strategy teams. Prior to founding ASART, she worked for KPMG and Lafarge.
For over the last 13 years Binh has been working intensively with M&A transactions and strategic projects for both sell-side and buy-side. She has built a unique set of experience and track record with knowledge in M&A, finance, strategy, valuation, structuring, commercial performance, accounting, tax, legal, reporting, problem solving, executive negotiation, politics, government relations, and advocacy. Her current work is the optimal combination of these areas, with emphasis on value creation and sustainable growth.
She has assisted and advised many leading Vietnamese companies and multinational corporations in various industries, with 110+ projects and 230+ companies for a total value of USD3.6+ billion, directly with shareholders and board of directors.
Binh holds an MBA from Indiana University and Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) and a Bachelor of Commerce from RMIT University. |
 Minh Nguyen
Partner, Head of Advisory Services
Forvis Mazars
Minh is Partner in charge of Advisory Services at Forvis Mazars in Vietnam. With nearly 20 years of professional experience at one of the “Big 4” and Forvis Mazars, Minh has developed into one of the leading Tax advisors in the Vietnamese market, with class leading skills particularly in International Taxation, Transfer Pricing, and International Trade. His projects include market entry services, multinational group transaction restructuring, M&A, tax compliance and advisory, transfer pricing review and documentation, tax audit assistance for clients, and customs review and compliance.
Minh is Vice – Chairman of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham), Executive Committee Member of the Central and Eastern European Chamber of Commerce (CEEC), Board Member of the EU-Vietnam Business Council, where he involves in supporting European companies doing business in Vietnam via various advocacy activities toward Vietnamese Government agencies, and to promote business cooperation between Vietnam and European countries.
Minh is currently a member of the Asia-Pacific Committee of Praxity Alliance (one of the largest global Alliances of accounting firms in the world), in charge of regional transfer pricing engagements, and promotion of Praxity firms in the region.
Minh is now Vice – Chairman of Committee No. 1 on Policy Reform of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on Administrative Procedures Reform (ACAPR). |
Fatya Mamcu