Vietnam’s growth story is easy to describe through investment figures, new technologies, and expanding industries. The harder question is: who is helping people understand what is actually happening beneath those headlines?
The 10 Top Voices You Should Follow in Vietnam (2026) brings together professionals whose perspectives are grounded in what they have built, managed, researched, or transformed. From capital and clean energy to AI, healthcare, talent, data engineering, and the Vietnamese diaspora, each brings a different lens to the forces reshaping the country.
What makes them worth following is not simply expertise. It is their ability to turn firsthand experience into useful context for understanding where Vietnam is heading next.
Highlights
Quang Do
Founder & CEO, Overseas Vietnamese
Quang Do has built his work around a community that often sits between countries, careers, and identities: overseas Vietnamese. What began as a side project in 2019 has grown into Overseas Vietnamese, an invite-only network of 1,000 Vietnamese professionals across more than 30 cities, which he now leads as Founder and CEO.
He has also expanded that ecosystem through OV Ventures, backing Vietnamese founders worldwide, and the OV Podcast, which shares stories from the community. Previously, Do worked at Google helping businesses in Vietnam and other regional markets grow, and spent time in venture capital with Samsung Next.
On LinkedIn, his distinctive perspective comes from connecting diaspora experience with entrepreneurship, technology, and returning to Vietnam. His posts offer a view of Vietnam through people navigating opportunities both inside and outside the country.
Vu Trinh
Founder, vutr | Data Engineer, Amanotes
Vu Trinh writes about data engineering from the part of the job that technical tutorials often leave out: what happens when systems meet real production constraints. A data engineer since 2019, he currently works at Amanotes while building vutr, a learning platform focused on helping engineers become production-ready.
His credibility comes from working directly with complex data infrastructure. His writing is followed by more than 18,000 engineers. Rather than focusing only on tools, his LinkedIn perspective explores engineering judgement: trade-offs, design decisions, production failures, and knowing when technically correct solutions may not be operationally practical.
Huong Nguyen
Founder & Trainer, EB Foundation
Huong Nguyen is a people and technology leader with more than 11 years of experience in talent and employer branding, now working at the intersection of AI and organisational transformation. As Founder of EB Foundation (2023) and Country Talent Partner and Local Representative (Vietnam) for DAPL IT Services, a Singapore-based technology company, she works across talent leadership, community building, and technology-driven transformation, delivering training, consulting, and strategic programmes that help organisations rethink their talent strategies and ways of working for an AI-integrated future.
Her execution credibility includes helping Creative Force triple its headcount and contributing to its recognition as Vietnam’s No. 1 Best IT Company by ITviec within just over two years, alongside community building and partnership experience with technology and innovation communities such as Google Developer Groups and JunctionX Hanoi.
A certified Employer Branding Professional from Sweden and currently pursuing an MBA in AI & Innovation, Huong explores on LinkedIn how AI is changing the way people and organisations work – from AI agents and automation to AI-first approaches in HR, grounding emerging ideas in real-world experiments and lessons from practice.
Cuong Dang
Founder & Chairman, Vietnam Vanguard | Vietnam Chief Representative, Fortune
Cuong Dang operates at the intersection of leadership, capital, media, and institution-building in Vietnam. He is Founder and Chairman of Vietnam Vanguard, a platform connecting founders, executives, successors, and returnees, while also serving as Fortune’s Vietnam Chief Representative.
His track record spans several parts of Vietnam’s business ecosystem. Dang founded and led Forbes Vietnam as its first CEO, secured the brand’s local licence, and built programmes around executives, women, and next-generation leaders. He also founded Resu, Resu Capital, and Safelane Vietnam, and has worked with Washington University in St. Louis on executive education in Vietnam.
On LinkedIn, his perspective stands out because he frequently questions whether growth narratives are supported by the leadership, governance, capital structures, and execution capabilities required to sustain them. His focus is less on celebrating momentum and more on what Vietnam must build next.
Thuận Thanos
Country Manager, TotalEnergies DG Vietnam | Co-Chair, EuroCham Green Growth Sector Committee
Thuận Thanos works at the point where Vietnam’s clean-energy ambitions meet commercial execution. With more than 15 years of experience across business growth, market expansion, and strategic partnerships in Asia-Pacific, he now serves as Country Manager for TotalEnergies Distributed Generation Vietnam and Co-Chair of EuroCham Vietnam’s Green Growth Sector Committee.
His roles give him exposure to both business implementation and policy dialogue. At EuroCham, he contributes to discussions around renewable energy, circular economy, and green infrastructure, while his TotalEnergies position focuses on distributed renewable energy in Vietnam. He also previously served as CEO of V-Green in the Philippines and now mentors ASEAN youth on renewable energy and climate change.
On LinkedIn, his distinctive value lies in connecting policy and technologies such as solar, BESS, and DPPA with the practical investment, regulatory, and operational considerations faced by manufacturers and energy users.
Binh Phuong Le
Country Director Vietnam, AACI America
Binh Phuong Le approaches healthcare quality from the gap between having standards and making those standards work inside real healthcare organisations. A physician-executive with more than 20 years of experience, Le works across accreditation, patient safety, quality governance, risk management, and healthcare education.
As Country Director for AACI America in Vietnam, Le leads work covering accreditation, certification, standards implementation, client engagement, and professional capability development. Le also founded AACI Viet Nam Co., Ltd., established the organisation’s local operating structure, and serves as an international advisor to Yonsei University’s Wonju College of Medicine. In addition, Le co-founded the Global Innovative Healthcare Academy and founded the Vietnam Lifestyle Medicine Alliance.
On LinkedIn, the distinctive focus is practical implementation: how healthcare organisations can move beyond documentation and compliance toward safer systems, stronger governance, continuous improvement, and more reliable patient care.
Hang Vu
Chairwoman & Managing Partner, Minh Triet Capital
Hang Vu brings more than 20 years of corporate leadership and advisory experience to a question increasingly facing international companies and investors: not simply why Vietnam is attractive, but how to enter, structure, and scale successfully in the market.
As Chairwoman and Managing Partner of Minh Triet Capital, she works across infrastructure, logistics, energy transition, industrial development, and capital structuring. She also co-founded RSI Consulting Asia, supporting companies with market entry, partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and commercial execution. Her experience includes leading VinFast’s Thailand market entry, where her team secured 22 Letters of Intent and 10 dealership agreements within six months, as well as commercialising VinBrain’s AI healthcare platform internationally.
On LinkedIn, Vu’s distinctive strength is translating policy, investment trends, and Vietnam’s growth narrative into practical questions about capital deployment, local execution, partnerships, and competitiveness.
Lan Doan
Founder, Asla | Founding Member, Board of Advisors, Teach For Vietnam
Lan Doan explores technology through a question that is becoming increasingly relevant as AI advances: how can technology strengthen human agency instead of weakening it? She is currently building Asla, an AI platform designed around focus, psychological barriers, and sustained performance, which became an Asia-Pacific finalist in Harvard’s 2024 Alumni New Venture Competition.
Her perspective draws from an unusually varied operating background. Lan previously served as CEO of TAPTAP, which she built from launch into a coalition loyalty platform with more than three million users and 10,000 merchant partners. Before that, she was a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group across Southeast Asia and earned an MBA from Harvard. She is also a founding Board of Advisors member at Teach For Vietnam.
On LinkedIn, she connects AI, leadership, strategic thinking, self-coaching, and human connection, questioning not only what technology can automate, but what people should retain for themselves.
Phu Nguyen
Senior Conference Manager, APAC – Energy & Telecoms, Terrapinn
Phu Nguyen is a Senior Conference Manager at Terrapinn with more than 12 years of experience producing international leadership forums across Asia-Pacific.
As the conference lead behind Solar & Storage Live Vietnam, EVCharge Live Vietnam and Climatech Vietnam, she has a front-row view of Vietnam’s fast-evolving energy landscape.
On LinkedIn, Phu is followed for her timely market updates and insights on Vietnam’s energy transition, as well as hard-to-find perspectives on the country’s economic development. Drawing on her close engagement with executives, investors and industry leaders, she offers a window into how one of Asia’s most dynamic economies is changing from the inside.
Tuan Pham
Research Director, InsightAsia
Tuan Pham looks at Vietnam’s economy through the behaviour of the people inside it. As Research Director at InsightAsia, he leads strategic research for multinational companies and major Vietnamese brands across sectors including FMCG, healthcare, retail, and consumer goods, while also managing the company’s Vietnam business.
His credibility is grounded in both research and business leadership. At InsightAsia, Tuan rebuilt the Vietnam division from the ground up, taking responsibility for strategy, operations, team development, client relationships, market expansion, and P&L. He previously built research teams at Asia Plus and managed business development and operations at Macromill Southeast Asia. His consumer insights have also appeared across national television and business media.
On LinkedIn, Tuan’s distinctive strength is using original research to challenge assumptions about Vietnamese consumers, particularly the gaps between what people say, what brands expect, and how consumers actually behave.
Beyond Growth: The Voices Defining What Vietnam Builds Next
What makes the 10 Top Voices You Should Follow in Vietnam (2026) valuable is not that they tell the same story about Vietnam. Their perspectives often begin from very different places.
One sees the country through global Vietnamese communities. Another through production data systems. Others examine capital deployment, healthcare standards, consumer behaviour, human agency, employer branding, executive capability, or the economics of clean energy.
Together, these perspectives suggest that Vietnam’s next stage of development will depend on more than growth itself. It will depend on whether institutions can execute, companies can build the right capabilities, capital can find workable pathways, technology can create useful outcomes, and people can adapt alongside those changes.
That is where these voices become useful. They help readers move beyond broad narratives about Vietnam’s potential and look more closely at how that potential is being built, tested, challenged, and translated into practice.
Editorial Note:
This feature is independently curated by the NewInAsia editorial team and is not a paid or sponsored listing. We research professionals using publicly available information, primarily LinkedIn, and conduct an editorial review based on factors such as expertise, consistency of public contributions, engagement quality, professional credibility, and relevance to the featured topic. This is a curated editorial feature, not a definitive ranking.
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