Curriculum Vitae Name: NGUYEN, Quy Hanh Date of birth: 07/08/1980 Place of birth: Hue City, Vietnam Nationality: Vietnamese Current position: In Germany Junior researcher/PhD student Department of Political and Cultural Change Center for Development Research (ZEF) University of Bonn Walter-Flex-Straße 3, D-53113 Bonn, Germany Phone: ++ 49(0)228734962 Mobile: ++ 49(0)15784935406 Email: hanh.nguyen@uni-bonn.de www.zef.de In Vietnam Head of the office Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations of Thua Thien Hue Province 25 Nguyen Van Cu Street, Hue City, Vietnam Phone/Fax: ++ 84-54-3846493 Mobile: ++ 84(0)905010126 Email: quyhanh@gmail.com www.huefo.org.vn EDUCATION The University of Bonn, Germany PhD Student 10/2009 – 9/2012 Research on knowledge management within the WISDOM project Working title: Problem solving, networking and knowledge use in the water sector in Can Tho City, Vietnam The University of Queensland, Australia Master of Development Practice 6/2006 - 12/2007 Graduation thesis: Putting community first: tourism for development in Doi Village, Central Vietnam College of Economics, University of Hue, Vietnam Courses on Business Administration 12/2003 - 5/2006 College of Education, University of Hue, Vietnam B.A. in English and TEFL 9/1998 - 6/2002 Graduation thesis: An investigation into how new vocabulary is presented in non-language classes at College of Education, the University of Hue AWARDS • DAAD Fellowship, University of Bonn • ADS Fellowship, University of Queensland • Diplomas of merit for great achievements by the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations 8/2009 - 9/2012 6/2006 - 12/2007 2004, 2009 WORKING EXPERIENCE Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations of Thua Thien Hue Province (HueFO) Head of the office 7/2009 - Present Taking the full management responsibility of the Office of HueFO, a people-to-people foreign affairs organization, in terms of human resource management and organization, solidarity and friendship activities, and non-governmental development projects. Deputy head of the office 1/2008 - 6/2009 Officially regular member of the personnel 6/2005 - 12/2007 Development officer 10/2002 - 5/2005 RELATED EXPERIENCE Netherlands Development Organizations (SNV) Pro-poor sustainable tourism (PPST) consultant I dentifying potential PPST activities to promote inter-regional and cross border linkages; organizing validation workshop sharing findings of Road No. 9/EastWest Economic Corridor tourism value chain analysis; participating in and providing inputs for community based tourism exit strategy and assessing opportunities for participation of the poor in tourism excursion value chain and other sub sector supply/value chain; and developing Letters of Assignment (LoA) relevant to SNV’s PPST sub sector strategy and desire of the sector, and providing advice and support to clients and partners to implement activities agreed in the LoA. Partnership with WWF, GCP, TROPENPOS, CIFOR International, FRR, Oxfam Research facilitator and capacity building assistant 1 - 6/2008 2002 - Present PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS • Quy-Hanh Nguyen. 2007. Putting community first: tourism for development in Doi Village, Central Vietnam. School of Social Science, University of Queensland (Master thesis). • Redcliffe older persons’ needs assessment study. 2007. School of Social Science, University of Queensland (UQ Postgraduate team research). • Social impact assessment: changes to Queensland’s social housing system. 2006. School of Social Science, University of Queensland (UQ Postgraduate team research). MEMBERSHIPS • Centre for Social Research and Development (Hue City-based) • Thua Thien Hue Foreign Relations Service Centre