Ngoc (Brian) Thang Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Vietnam

• Mentor three to five students each year on their social project planning and implementation
• Develop a detailed guideline to assess project proposals which include the following criteria, description of beneficiaries and social issues, project activities, monitoring and evaluation plan, financial plan, team.
• Train 10+ co-hosts from three provinces on event planning skills
• Maintain relationships and provided support when needed to nine incubated projects

Hanoi, Vietnam

• Designed and managed a team of 30+ to organize an annual career orientation fair for 800+ high school students since 2013
• Collaboratively wrote a series of book about event-organization (“Master Mind”, main author; “The Handbook for Sponsor Hunter”, co-author; “The Fishers”, co-author) with 1000+ downloads
• Managed 40+ leadership training workshops for high school students
• Led the team of four to build the logical framework and the evaluation tools for the organization’s training courses
• Engaged regularly with external stakeholders and partnered organizations to scale up the career fair to other provinces in Vietnam

Tanzania

• Partnered with Harvard Medical School to conduct research with a team of three on surgical policies in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone
• Developed and implemented a project including scoping, methodological designing, and field-based interviewing in Tanzania
• Provided budget support for the team in Tanzania, including budgeting and reimbursement processing via Concur.
• Authored a 20-page case study on the development of the national surgical plan in Tanzania
• Advocated a national surgical policy to the Deputy Director of the International Development Department and Minister’s Secretary of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health in an international conference in Dubai, UAE

Hanoi

• Drafted petitions, provided legal training, and represented 300+ people in four communities affected by the economic investments and corruptions
• Led two prominent cases to reach a breakthrough: a community polluted by pesticides buried by a military company, and an ethnic minority affected by the construction of the biggest hydropower plant in Vietnam
• Conducted research and identified loopholes in Vietnamese forest conversion policy
• Prepared talking points, created and formatted charts, graphics, displays, and tables to present before partners and community leaders

Hanoi, Vietnam

• Synthesized and analyzed 100+ new policies and regulations on business, and presented implications to 300+ business associations
• Wrote five policy memos to advocate new business legislation and policies
• Represented VCCI in the ministries to comment on new decrees of business conditions
• Interviewed 15 corporates investing in Laos and Cambodia to gain insights in challenges to foreign investments
• Imported and cleaned data of 9000+ responses of individuals and organizations for the “Top 10 Regulations” report
• Contributed to the “Top 10 Regulations” and “Reviewing on Business Conditions & Freedom of Business in Vietnam” reports

Hanoi, Vietnam

• Worked directly with the Head of Intellectual Property Department to consult 50+ clients on intellectual property registration
• Drafted 25+ statements of defense on behalf of clients to submit to the Vietnamese National Intellectual Property Office
• Translated 250+ pages legal contracts from Vietnamese into English and vice versa for high profile clients

Master Of Global Affairs, Sustainable Development

Recipient of the McKenna Center Fellowship with full tuition and stipend during the 2-year master program

Fuv-Yseali Summer School, Entrepreneurship And Innovation

Bachelor’S Degree, Economic Law

Activities and Societies: Member of Executive Board of Hanoi Law University Student Council from 2013 to 2015

Chemistry

Mathematics