Tran Giang Linh

Tran Giang Linh is a program specialist who develops, implements, and evaluates projects and programs focused on women’s economic empowerment, migration, and digital finance. With more than 15 years in various capacities, Linh has been involved in extensive academic research, consultancy, and management of development projects and has a broad understanding of 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 nonprofit, nongovernmental 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.