Dr. Doanh is an Advisor to the Vietnam Ministry of Planning and Investments (MPI). He was a permanent member of many goverment entities, including the Government Commission for State-owned Enterprises Reform, and the National Commission for Finance and Monetary Policy. Dr. Doanh has held many senior government and party positions and was Vice President, Vice-Minister and finally President of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM). He is a visiting professor at the Nihon University in Tokyo. Dr. Doanh earned his Ph.D. at the National Economics University in Hanoi, has concluded post graduate studies at the Academy for National Economy in Moscow and graduated at the Technical University of Leuna- Merseburg in Germany.

Dr. Kiem was the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, the country’s central bank, from 1989 until 1997. He currently serves as the Deputy Chief of the Central Party’s Economics Board, is the Vice President of the Consulting Committee for National Monetary Policy, and is Chairman of the Association of Vietnam’s Small and Medium Scale Enterprises.

Since January 2006, Dr. Kiem has served as the Vice Chairman of the Vietnamese Learning Promotion Association. His previous positions in Vietnam include Secretary of the Communist Party Committee, and Director of the State Bank of Thai Binh Province. Dr. Kiem earned his Ph.D. in economics at the National Economics University of Vietnam.

Dr. Tam served until 2008 as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC), which was established in April 2006 by the Prime Minister to manage government shareholdings in privatized State-Owned Enterprises.

Before her SCIC assignment, Dr. Tam served 11 years as a Vice Minister at the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam with core responsibilities in State treasury and budget management, external financing and international cooperation, capital market development, financial services and State-Owned Enterprises reform program.

Dr. Le Thi Bang Tam was formerly a lecturer on economics and finance at the Hanoi University for Accounting. Dr. Tam was also a member of the National Committee for International Economic cooperation, and a member of the National Committee of monetary and finance policy. Dr. Tam received a PhD in Economics and Finance from Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and a Bachelors degree from the Hanoi University of Accounting and Finance.

Mr. Winkler is the founder and Chairman of VGZ, an investment management firm in Zurich. He completed his studies at the HSG University of St. Gallen. His primary interest lies in undervalued investments, particularly in emerging markets.

He is known as “Mr. Vietnam” in Switzerland and Germany and due to his extensive knowledge and investment acumen has long been considered a leading source for investment advice on Asia’s emerging markets