Martin Rama
Martin Rama has been the Lead Economist of the World Bank office in Hanoi since in September 2002.  In this capacity, he oversees the analytical program of the World Bank in areas related to economic policy and poverty reduction.  This includes the preparation of the annual Vietnam Development Reports, a flagship publication of the donor community.  Martin Rama has also been the focal person in the preparation of annual Poverty Reduction Support Credits (PRSCs), which bring together a large number of donors in support of Vietnam’s reform agenda, across a range of policy areas.   Martin Rama gained his Ph.D. in macroeconomics in France in 1985.  Back to his home country Uruguay, he worked in the country’s largest think tank, and became one of its directors.  He was also part of the team that produced the main study for the trade liberalization program of Uruguay. Prior to moving to Vietnam, Martin Rama spent ten years with the research department of the World Bank, mainly stationed in Washington DC, but providing support to a large number of developing countries.  The main focus of his research was on labor issues, especially in the context of public sector restructuring.  His research activities have led to numerous publications in academic journals.

Dang Nguyen Anh
Dang Nguyen Anh is an Associate Professor and Vice Director of the International Department of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). Over the past decades, he has established an intellectual network with other countries in the East and Southeast Asian region. He participates and coordinates a range of research and training activities dealing with social development, adolescents, migration and urban transformation, population and health. His list of publications includes numerous monographs, several books and academic articles. He holds a PhD degree in sociology from Brown University, USA.

Nguyen Viet Cuong
Nguyen Viet Cuong is a lecturer in Faculty of Trade Economics, National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam. He graduated from Master Program in Agricultural Development Economics and was awarded a prize for the best master thesis in Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He is now doing a Ph.D. program in Wageningen University. His major field is household welfare, poverty, inequality, and trade economics.

Tran Thi Mai Oanh
Tran Mai Oanh is Deputy Director of the Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI), Ministry of Health (MoH). She has undertaken numerous studies on health care for the poor and health care for the elderly in Vietnam. She holds a master’s degree in public health at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and is now working on her PhD research at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Vietnam.

Giang Thanh Long
Giang Thanh Long is a lecturer of the Faculty of Economics, NEU, and a research fellow at VDF. His main research interests are social security, poverty, demographic changes, and pension reform, particularly in Vietnam. He has published a number of articles and research papers on these themes. He has created a wide network of people working/doing research on social security issues in many countries, especially in Asia and Europe. In 2005, he held a visiting research fellowship at the Oxford Institute of Ageing, the University of Oxford, to work on aging and pension reform in Vietnam. He earned a master of public policy (MPP) degree from Hitotsubashi University, Japan, and is currently completing PhD in Policy Studies at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo.