Directors - Australia-Vietnam Young Leadership Dialogue

Melissa Jardine

Dr Melissa Jardine is an international policing consultant. She has a long term interest in the development of policing and security in Asia and has a PhD from the UNSW Law School on policing in Vietnam. She is a Regional Research Consultant to UN Women and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in...

Layton Pike

Mr Pike has been Chief Global Adviser for RMIT University since February 2019. In this role, he is responsible for advising on global strategy and relationships. RMIT is a global university of technology, design and enterprise. Mr Pike is also a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). He was...

Thao Griffiths

Thao Griffiths is currently Policy Advisor to the Chairman of Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In 2016, she spent a year in Switzerland at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Prior to that, Thao was known for her work as Country Director of VVAF, an American NGO focusing on development issues and the US-Vietnam people-to- people...

Tuan Pham

Tuan is a corporate social responsibility and sustainability professional with extensive work experience in the US, the Netherlands and Vietnam. He is currently Global Head of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at Agoda (one of the world’s fastest growing online travel booking platforms), dedicated to turning tourism into a force for good. At Agoda, Tuan...

Andrew Duck

Andrew is the Founder & CEO of Aversafe, a tech company focusing on reducing credential fraud and improving graduate mobility in the emerging economies. In 2011, Andrew co-founded Audience Media, a B2B company focused on efficiency gains for journalists and editorial teams. He built the world’s first multi-channel editorial management system for publishers like the...

Elise Giles

Policy Manager

Elise Giles is the Capability Development Manager at Asialink Business, Australia’s National Centre for Asia Capability. Elise addresses emerging policy issues and delivers high quality programs and projects in Australia and the ASEAN region. Elise was deployed to Vietnam to strengthen local capacity to address infectious disease threats, and has supported remote communities in Indonesia...

Viet Tran

Viet Tran has been a pioneer in the sports entertainment industry in Vietnam, helping to establish the Vietnam Basketball association and being its CEO. Viet aspires to promote healthy lifestyles through making sports entertainment an important part of Vietnamese society. He is currently the CCO of Vietnam GrandPrix Corporation, overseeing commercial and operations of the first-ever...