Dr Huong Le Thu
Dr. Huong Le Thu (or Le Thu Hương) is Chair of the Australia-Vietnam Policy Institute’s Advisory Board. She is also Deputy Director of the Asia Program at the International Crisis Group, and nonresident Fellow with the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC. Previously, she held a senior position at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Defense and Strategy Program.
Dr. Le Thu has also worked at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and the Institute of International Relations in Taiwan.
Dr. Le Thu is a renowned public intellectual and expert on Vietnam, Southeast Asia and broader geopolitics. Her academic publications have appeared in journals such as The Asian Security, The Asia-Pacific Review, and The Asian Policy, and her opinion pieces have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Nikkei Asian Review, The Australian Financial Review, Straits Times, and Japan Times, among others.
Dr. Le Thu holds a PhD from the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She speaks five languages and has published in four.
