Speakers

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Speaker

Prof. Nguyen Hong Quan

Vietnamese-German University

About the Speaker

Dr. NGUYEN Hong Quan is currently an associate professor at the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh city (VNU-HCM). He is leading a newly established Institute for Circular Economy Development (ICED) and also affiliated with socio-hydrology group at center of Water management and Climate Change (WACC), Institute for Environment and Resources (IER), VNU-HCM. He has a special interest in solving environmental related issues based on inter/trans-disciplinary study and by a strong partnership among academia-industry-government. He has been working in environmental hydrology (e.g. saline intrusion, flood/drought, water pollution) in Vietnam over the past 20 years and expanded his expertise in other disciplines e.g. climate change adaptation/mitigation, circular economy, socio-ecological system, sustainability science. Dr. Nguyen has been leading and participating in number of projects (international, national, ministerial, provincial levels) with total funding of about 1,500,000 US Dollars. He has published actively at various (inter-)national journals, conferences/workshops including (co-) authored nearly 100 ISI/Scopus indexed articles (70 % in Q1, Q2 and top-tier ones e.g. Nature, Sustainable development, Sustainable Cities and Society, Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production). He currently serves as a member of the Editorial board of Circular Economy and Sustainability (Springer) Frontier – Sustainability, section Circular Economy; and member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Global Circularity Protocol for Business.