Manh-Tien Bui (in Vietnamese as Bùi Mạnh Tiến) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University. His research interests include Political Economy, Energy Economics, and Applied Economics. He has experience working as a policy researcher and advocates at Fulbright University Vietnam, the United Nations Population Fund, and several regional and national non-profit organizations. He was involved in several research projects on regional and provincial development planning, COVID-19 policy evaluation, and other economic-related policy studies in Vietnam. His clients include the Vietnamese Central and Provincial Governments, the Vietnamese National Assembly, the World Bank, and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.