Southeast Asian markets, CEO Liaison and Consultancy support.
Expertise
Business Development, International Affairs and Trade.
About Loan
Loan is responsible for trade strategy and advice in East Asia. Her work has covered trade and market analysis, multilateral and bilateral trade agreements, trade preferences, trade negotiations, business facilitation, and value chain analysis. Loan has been working on various cross-border trade projects, including digital trade connectivity platforms in ASEAN, preferential market access guides, trade negotiation training and advisory work, digital markets and economic integration programmes in African countries. Since 2019, Loan has been intensively engaged in designing and delivering capacity-building programmes on trade negations for Indonesia (trade in services and NTMs), Cambodia (Preferential tariffs and Rules of Origin), Angola (trade impact assessments), Uzbekistan (WTO accession, TRIPS and TRIMS), etc.
Loan is based in Vietnam and has been working on a range of cross-border trade projects, including on digital trade connectivity platforms in ASEAN, preferential market access guides, trade negotiation training and advisory work, digital markets and economic integration programmes in the African countries. Loan has carried out several assessments of mega trade deals in the area of services and sustainability, including CPTPP and RCEP. She co-authored several handbooks on trade-related issues, including a Guidebook on Trade Impact Assessment (UNCTAD); Export Guides to the EU, US, and EFTA markets (UNDP); Trade Analysis Handbook and Trade Foresight Study for Cambodia (GIZ). She recently concluded two handbooks on the labour and environment provisions of the CPTPP for Vietnam.
She also worked on agricultural regional value chains trade across a variety of African countries in the context of the AfCFTA. She recently concluded a Survey on Barriers to Services Trade and Investment in Mauritius for the World Bank. Before joining the company, she worked at Baker & McKenzie.
Below are some of Loan’s most recent client work:
- Conducting comparative analyses of FTA provisions and their impact for the private sector, including those of RCEP, CTPPP and major recent agreements in Asia.
- Co-managing the stakeholder engagement process to design a regional trade connectivity platform in ASEAN.
- Research and co-authoring handbooks for trade officials in Asia and Africa, in several areas to support countries with trade policies, e-commerce, and trade negotiations.
- Leading IEC’s work on online dispute resolutions, in close collaboration with a major Vietnamese think tank and Australian counterparts.
Loan holds a MA in International Trade Policy & Law and a BSc in International Business & Economics from the Foreign Trade University of Hanoi, in addition to an LLB from Hanoi Law University.
Languages
- Native in Vietnamese.
- Fluent in English.
