Dr Mai Nguyen is a Research Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. She currently serves as Deputy Director of the Hub for Vietnam Policy Studies and Manager of the Water Justice Hub. Since its establishment, she has contributed to several key initiatives of the Water Justice Hub. She is also a Co-convenor of the Just Water Alliance—a global collective of custodians, researchers, advocates, and practitioners united by a shared mission to ensure equitable access to water for all communities.

Her research focuses on international trade, economic growth, computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, environmental economics, environmental justice, water justice, and food security. She is also a consultant for a UNDP project focused on non-tariff measures, regional economic integration, and sustainable development in ASEAN+6 Countries.

Before joining the Crawford School, Mai spent a decade as an economist and policymaker at Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance (formerly the Ministry of Planning and Investment), where she developed expertise in both international and domestic trade policy and research.

Mai holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University.