Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan
Residency: May 16-30, 2011
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan is chairman of VietNamNet Media Company, one of Vietnam’s leading multimedia communications corporations. Tuan is also the editor in chief of VietNamNet, Vietnam’s most popular online news publication. Tuan founded VietNet, the first internet service provider in Vietnam to provide email and web access, an achievement for which he was selected one of the ten outstanding young Vietnamese by the Prime Minister in 1996. He has been at the forefront of Internet entrepreneurship and online journalism ever since.
Over the last decade Tuan has founded and built VietNamNet into the most respected and widely read news and entertainment website in Vietnam. Today VietnamNet is one of a handful of print and electronic publications that are at the vanguard of Vietnam’s increasingly vibrant and influential press. VietnamNet’s reporting has helped break a number of high-profile corruption cases and is highly regarded for its sophisticated analysis of Vietnam’s ongoing economic and political reforms. Tuan pioneered an interactive interview format, the “VietnamNet Online Roundtable,” that enables readers to participate in interviews with Vietnamese officials, public figures, and Vietnamese and international experts. As a journalist, his series of articles and online broadcasts covering the historic visit to the United States of Prime Minister Phan Van Khai in 2005 were read by 80 million online viewers.
In 1997 Tuan founded VASC Software and Media Company. Under his leadership VASC has become the leading Vietnamese company in the area of information technology and Internet and mobile phone-based value-added services.
In 2004, Tuan became a Harvard alumnus when he completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business School. Tuan received a BS in mathematics from the University of Dalat and taught in the faculty of mathematics there before embarking on his business and journalism career. In 2007, Tuan successfully completed the Fall Fellowship at Joan Shorenstein Center of Harvard Kennedy School. In 2008, Tuan was appointed by Dean Jay O. Light a three-year-term as a member of Harvard Business School Global Advisory Board. In early 2011, Tuan was named an Associate of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Events
Public Lecture will be held on May 17, 2011. Click here for event details.
Student Luncheon will be held on May 25, 2011. Click here for event details.
