Dr. Nguyen Dinh Chuc is Deputy Director of the Institute of Regional Sustainable Development (IRSD), Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. His research interests include technical efficiency, technological capacities, economic development and planning, industrial ecology, small and medium enterprises, foreign direct investment, global value chain. Chuc initiated various research projects and authored a number of publications on both Vietnamese and international journals on different topics. Chuc was a consultant for various international organizations and large companies, including the World Bank, UNIDO, UNDP, ADB, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Google, PwC,… on spectrum of issues, regarding public finance, development planning and strategies, funding for sustainable development, economic and policy impact evaluation,… He received Master of Public Policy from Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and PhD in Management Science from Aston University, UK.