Tue Anh (Jenny) Nguyen

Tue Anh (Jenny) Nguyen

Dr. Tue Anh Nguyen is PSIRU’s Visiting senior research fellowin public policy. Previously, at UCL Instiute for Innovation and Public Purpose (UCL-IIPP), she was Mission-Oriented Innovation Research Fellow, working with Professor Mariana Mazzucato on industrial policies and conditionalities. In October 2024, she co-authored the best-selling book “Chip Battlefield: China's National Innovation Strategies and Policies in the 21st century" in Vietnamese. The book analyses the key innovation policy pillars of the U.S. and China in the development of semiconductor sectors. Between 2018 and 2021, she was a visiting scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and between 2017-2018, a postdoctoral visiting fellow at Growth Lab, Center for International Development (CID), Harvard Kennedy School.

Dr Tue Anh Nguyen is Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and holds a postgraduate teaching certificate. She has also been trained in Economics teaching methods at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick. She has taught, and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate research at UCL, York St John University, University of Greenwich… She was also invited to lecture at numerous international universities, including Foreign Trade University (Vietnam), NUS (Singapore), Dundee University (Scotland), Universite Catholique de Lille (France)…. Between 2017 and 2021, she co-founded the Vietnam Summer School in Research (VSSR) to teach research methodologies and theories for over 100 young scholars and lecturers annually.

Awards
  • Scholarship and Best Project Award, Oxford Mathematical Institute, Summer School (2017)
  • Best Student Award, University of Greenwich (2017)
  • OPEC Fund Award for Students from Developing Countries, International Association for Energy Economists (2017)
  • Scholarship and Best Paper Award, European Union Jean Monet Network (2016)
  • Best PhD Poster Award, University of Greenwich (2015, 2014)

Research / Scholarly interests

Political economy, public services, energy policy, industrial policies, conditionalities, public-private partnership.

Key funded projects

Small Group Grant, Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) (2023) with Professor David Hall

Research: Ancient and modern public services: cross-disciplinary provocations

Grant, Economic Justice Programme, Open Society Foundation (2022)

Conference: Shifting Narratives Conference

Group Research Grant, Economic Justice Programme, Open Society Foundation (2021)

Research: Narrative Change and Public Services Spending and Provision

Media activity

Dr Tue Anh Nguyen has been featured in numerous talks and articles, recently including American Embassy, Vietnam, National Financial Supervisory Commission – NFSC, Bloomberg Businessweek…

Recent publications
  • Nguyen, Tue Anh and Pham, Sy Thanh(2024), CHIP Battlefield: The Global Battlefield of National Innovation Strategies and Policies’, Times Publishing House (available in Vietnamese from September 2024, and in English and Mandarin Chinese from January 2024)
  • Anna Goulden, Laurie Macfarlane, Tue Anh Nguyen, Nora Clinton, Ryan Bellinson, Eduardo González de Molina (2024), MOIN Casebook 2024-Missions in Action, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)
  • Hall, D., Nguyen, TA and Wu, T (2023), ‘Shifting Narratives: The Political economy of Public Spending, Services and Production’, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) Working Paper
  • Hall, David and Nguyen, Tue Anh (2021) Radical narratives in the American Jobs Plan (AJP) and the global potential of ‘Biden plans’., University of Greenwich Working Paper
  • Alhassan Adam, Esteban Castro, David Hall, Satoko Kishimoto, Jenny Nguyen, Kyla Sankey, Vera Weghmann (2021), Narrative Change and Public Services Spending and Provision, Report for Open Society Foundation
  • Tue Anh, Nguyen, Weghmann, Vera and Hall, David (2020), COVID-19: Country case studies. Mapping COVID, PSIRU working papers for PSI, University of Greenwich Working Paper
  • Weghmann, Vera, Nguyen, Tue Anh and Hall, David (2021), Lessons from Covid 1: Key lessons, University of Greenwich Working Paper
  • Weghmann, Vera, Nguyen, Tue Anh and Hall, David (2021), Lessons from Covid 2: Why some countries did worse than expected, University of Greenwich Working Paper
  • Ajla Cosic , Lea Diestelmeier , Alexandru Maxim , Tue Anh Nguyen , and Nicolò Rossetto (2017) ‘Does public ownership provide affordable and reliable electricity to household customers? Case studies of electricity sector reforms in the UK, France, Germany and Italy, in “The Reform of Network Industries”, Elgar Publishing House
  • Nguyen, Tue Anh and Hall, David (2018), Economic Benefits of Public Services, Real World Economics Review, 2028 (84) pp. 100-153.
  • Feng Wang, Xiying Liu, Tue Anh Nguyen (2018), Evaluating the economic impacts and feasibility of China's energy cap: Based on an Analytic General Equilibrium Model, Economic Modelling, Volume 69, 2018, pp 114-126

Presentations
  • Nguyen T, “The Past, Present and Future of Public Services”, A Society in Crisis Conference, SOAS 2023.
  • Panel Discussion, “Climate Change, COP26 and the Role of Energy Transition in Southeast Asia”, YSEALI Academy’s Public Policy Seminar 2022, Fulbright University
  • Nguyen T, “Rethinking the Social Contract between the State and Private Sector”, Vietnam School of Development, 2022
  • Hall D, Nguyen T. “Narratives on Public Sector Spending”. NIRDPR India online webinar Sept 2021