Tran Giang Linh

Tran Giang Linh is responsible for assisting the country representative, deputy country representative, and program specialist for The Asia Foundation in Vietnam in developing, managing, and evaluating projects and programs on social development and gender, focusing on a wide range of issues such as political and economic women’s empowerment, labor rights, migration and development, CSO development, social & financial inclusion. With more than 15 years in various capacities, Linh has been involved in extensive academic research, consultancy, and management of relevant development projects and has a strong knowledge of current development issues and policies in Vietnam.

Prior to joining The Asia Foundation, Linh worked for eight years as a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Development Studies—one of the leading Vietnamese non-profit, non-governmental organizations in Vietnam—where she made progressively responsible professional experience in the Vietnamese context with social protection for internal and international migration, social inclusion and empowerment of different underprivileged populations (including people living with HIV/AIDS, injecting drug users, sex workers, people with disabilities, migrant workers, and women who suffer from domestic violence, etc.) with gender and rights as cross-cutting foci.

Education: Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities from Hanoi National University.