About Us

The Australia Vietnam Young Leadership Dialogue (AVYLD) is an independent non-profit initiative that was established to nurture relationships, promote engagement and incubate collaboration between Australian and Vietnamese young leaders from a broad spectrum of society. Through people to people links, we believe the bilateral relationship between Australia and Vietnam can be strengthened to contribute to the development of each respective nation.

Co-founders

Thao Nguyen

Chairperson

Thao is Chair and co-founder of the Australia Vietnam Young Leadership Dialogue. She is Regional Director of UTS:INSEARCH covering Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia. She is currently the Board Chair of Loreto Vietnam Australia Program, an education charity. Her memoir, We Are Here was published by Allen & Unwin and shortlisted for 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Thao has been living in Vietnam since 2007.

Rachel Bui

Chief Executive Officer

Rachel is an entrepreneur, economist and filmmaker. She is the founder of Aires Lab, an artificial intelligence research lab with an exploratory bent. Rachel worked at muru-D, the startup accelerator backed by Telstra and as a social policy economist at the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance. She holds a B.Com (Hons) from Monash University.

Khai Ngo

Chief Operations Officer

Khai is Head of Innovation and Growth for Cogent Business Solutions and Murumal, an Indigenous company. Khai dedicated over 12 years to the not-for-profit sector in management and fundraising roles. Previously, he was the Business Development and Strategy Manager at Police Citizens Youth Clubs NSW (PCYC NSW), one of Australia’s leading youth organisation. In 2014, he co-founded...