The AVPI is Australia's first policy institute focused on its relationship with Vietnam, acting as a partnered public policy hub centred around engagement, collaboration and impact.
Launched in February 2022, the AVPI is a partnered platform convening a community of Australian businesses, government organisations, universities, non-profits, and think tanks with a shared focus on Vietnam. The AVPI serves as a platform for bilateral policy engagement, focusing on the latest research and insights on the strategic and economic relationship between Australia and Vietnam.
In March 2024, the AVPI Advisory Board was established. The Advisory Board provides strategic advice to guide the strategic directions of the AVPI and enhance bilateral commercial and engagement. It is led by Dr Huong Le Thu, a public intellectual, prolific writer, commentator, academic and policy analyst with experience working across the Indo-Pacific. She is currently Deputy Director of Asia Program, International Crisis Group.
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The AVPI is supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
The AVPI enables and facilitates discussions on strategic and economic issues in the Australia-Vietnam bilateral relationship. Through disseminating the latest research and sharing expert insights from people with on-the-ground experience, the AVPI helps to advance a cooperative and secure environment for business and investment.
Our consortium approach brings together a powerful network of organisations in specialist fields to bring meaningful impact. Our areas of focus align to key sectors in the Australia-Vietnam relationship, including business and investment, digital economy, cyber security, agriculture and food manufacturing, professional services and education and training.
To champion the Australia-Vietnam strategic and economic bilateral relationship.
To provide a platform for bilateral engagement, growing strategic policy discussions, partnerships and knowledge networks around opportunities for two-way trade and investment, collaboration and innovation.
Australia’s first policy institute focused on its relationship with Vietnam
The AVPI is built on trust among our partnerships and is reflected across our operations, approach and the accountability of our people and institute.
We believe in the inclusion of diverse voices and perspectives to ensure the AVPI is a platform built on fairness to achieve new insights, creativity and innovation to benefit all communities.
We are dedicated to embracing and fostering innovation to deliver maximum impact on rapidly developing issues affecting the communities across both countries.
We uphold an unwavering sense of integrity and transparency across all our operations as a non-profit disseminating public knowledge and solutions to existing and future issues of strategic significance to bilateral relations.
RMIT is a global university of technology, design and enterprise. RMIT currently ranks number 18 for universities globally under 50 years old and number 1 in Australia for graduate employability. RMIT Vietnam was established in 2000 and has grown into a leading university in the region, with two well-equipped campuses in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi and a language centre in Da Nang.
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