PM Pham Minh Chinh said he highly valued contributions by Vallely in the formation of Fulbright University Vietnam. He said that the Vietnamese government would continue to create favorable conditions for the university to continue developing and becoming one of the high-quality human resources training facilities in Vietnam.

Currently, Vietnam is strengthening measures and policies to speed up socio-economic recovery and development and prioritizing the building of mechanisms and policies to lay the foundation for long-term and sustainable growth, he said, stressing that the country considers the people the core, the subject, the significant resources for and the target of development.

At the same time, as Vietnam Plus reported, the country defines the effective implementation of education-training policies and science-technology as the leading strategy and the key motivation for national development, he said.

The PM highlighted the goals of the socio-economic recovery and development program. He said that the government emphasizes enhancing dialogue and policy consultations on economic development with world-leading research centers to realize the development goals.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Professor Thomas Vallely at the Government Office, Ha Noi, March 18, 2022. Photo: VGP

The PM spoke highly of Vallely’s proposal on coordination between Havard University, Fulbright University Vietnam and Vietnamese Government agencies to organize the Vietnam Executive Leadership Programme (VELP) to discuss socio-economic issues in Vietnam.

He suggested several discussion contents for the program, including green growth, sustainable energy development, solutions to complete socialist-oriented market institutions, innovation and public-private partnership to mobilize resources for national development.

For his part, Vallely thanked the Vietnamese government for facilitating Fulbright University Vietnam’s operation, affirming that in the time to come, the university would work harder to enhance its training efficiency to become a high-quality training center in Vietnam in the region.

He noted that Harvard University and Fulbright University had worked with Vietnamese agencies to organize seven editions of the VELP. He expressed his hope that another edition will be held in 2022, focusing on priorities in Vietnam’s socio-economic development.

Vallely lauded Vietnam’s goals and strong commitments at the COP26 and affirmed his support to Vietnam during the realization of solutions to climate change response and green growth promotion, thus turning the country into a model inspiring other developing countries in the field.

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Vallely founded the Harvard Viet Nam Program in 1989 and established the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program in Ho Chi Minh City in 1994. FUV is the next step of the existing Fulbright Economics Teaching Programme, a public policy master’s program that the Ash Centre at the Kenney School of Government under the US’s Harvard University, established in 1994 in cooperation with the HCM City-based University of Economics.

He leveraged the Vietnam Program’s research to engage in a candid and constructively critical dialogue with the Vietnamese government about the strategic challenges confronting the country.

Under his leadership, the Fulbright School emerged as a center of excellence in public policy research and teaching and a pioneer in developing new modes of institutional governance in Viet Nam.

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