Employment 

2026 January-present:

Position: University Research Professor of Finance [Full Research], Full Research-Focused Professor in Financial Economics.

Institution: VinUniversity Faculty 200 Visionary Scholars, Scientists, Research-Track Professor Position, Hanoi, Vietnam. 

My research students/mentees under direct principal supervision and/or independent advisory mentoring through expert recommendation*:

1. 2026-present: Le Bao Khue, Bachelor of Arts in Economics, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. Inbound research student portfolios: 'Political Economics and Empirical Corporate Finance'. 

2. 2026-present: Hoang Trong Bac, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) majoring in Finance, VinUniversity. Research portfolios: Financial Innovations, Financial Intermediary, and the Economy. 

3. 2026-present: Nguyen Nhat Minh, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) majoring in Finance, VinUniversity [Dean’s List top-performing student in the whole cohort, received offer for exchange at KOREA UNIVERSITY - KU]. EOI formally received, research portfolios are now in development. 

4. 2026-present: Nguyen Dinh Minh Nhat, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) majoring in Finance, VinUniversity [top-performing student in the cohort]. EOI formally received, research portfolios are now in development. 

5. 2025-present: Li Jiaxin, Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours in Economics and Quantitative Finance (BSocSci Hons), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), National University of Singapore (NUS). Inbound student research portfolios: Innovative ESG Risk Factors and Asset Pricing [mainstream].

6. 2025-present: Giang (Zana) P. P. Nguyen, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) majoring in Finance, VinUniversity [Dean's List top-performing research-track gifted student for the full cohorts, completed exchange semester(s) at Seoul National University—SNU]. Internal student. Thesis titled: The Financial Economics of Financial Innovations [Asset Pricing—mainstream; Corporate Finance—secondary]

7. 2025-present: Quan Rui, Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours in Economics and Quantitative Finance (BSocSci Hons), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), National University of Singapore (NUS). Inbound student research portfolios: Financial Innovations and Empirical Corporate Finance [mainstream, coming].

8. 2025-present: Le Dinh Duy Kien, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) majoring in Finance, VinUniversity. EOI was formally received and agreed to by the supervisor. Student research portfolios: Capital Markets, Financial Intermediation, and Anomalies. 

9. 2023-present [Independent advisor via expert recommendation]: Van Anh Hoang, Bachelor of Commerce (Economics and Finance) graduate [Distinguished PhD-oriented research-track student, postgraduate scholarship offered from a QS top-100 university], The University of Melbourne, Australia. Student research portfolios: Banking, Financial Intermediation studies, ESG, Broad-Based Financial Development, and Financial Economics main streams. The student is managing multiple series of research projects and portfolios with scholarly outputs for top-tier conferences and journal articles. The student was invited to be and delivered a guest keynote speaker for my Fintech course [Fall 2025], VinUniversity, Vietnam.

10. 2024: Mada Grami, Master of Finance, Latrobe University, Australia. 

11. 2023: Quynh Pham, PhD Finance candidate, Massey University, New Zealand, advising on quasi-experimental research methods in corporate governance and CEO characteristics research designs with treatment effects [Acting as an invited independent scientific advisor through expert recommendation when I was affiliated with Massey University, New Zealand].

12. 2023: Giang Trinh, MRes/PhD in Finance candidate, University of Exeter, Master of Finance and Accounting, The University of Nottingham, UK [independent scientific advisor through expert recommendation]. [Acting as an invited independent scientific advisor through expert recommendation when I was affiliated with Massey University, New Zealand].

13. 2021: Szu-Yu Chen, PhD candidate in finance, University of Nottingham, UK, currently a professor in finance and accounting in Taiwan. Casual mentoring on DataStream World Scope [nowadays the LESG workspace] on firm-level cross-country government ownership data [Acting as an invited independent scientific advisor through expert recommendation when I was affiliated with Massey University, New Zealand].

*Per students' expressions of interest (EOI) formally sent and/or expert recommendations for the mentees to the supervisor/mentor. For research students under my direct and principal supervision listed above: Potential supervisors from external institutions can receive direct recommendation letters from me and/or the research students; per the students' expectations, my recommendation reference reports will be made available for their higher education applications, jobs, and any other professional job placements.

2025 August-present: 

Position: University Research-Track Professor of Finance, Research Professor in Financial Economics.

Faculty and College: Faculty of Finance, College of Business and Management (CBM).

Institution: VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam. 

My research portfolios:

1. Financial Economics.

2. Empirical Corporate Finance.

3. Asset Pricing.

4. ESG/CSR.

5. Climate Change.

6. Climate Finance.

7. Climate Economics.

8. Environmental Finance.

9. Biodiversity Finance.

10. Financial Intermediation.

11. International Finance.

12. International macroeconomics.

13. Energy Economics.

14. Energy Finance.

15. Commodity Markets. 

16. Financial Innovations.

Teaching

2025 Fall: Fintech (advanced final-year students).

Other Research-Focused Services: 

CBM Research & Development Committee (Finance-Financial Economics research portfolios). 

VinUniversity Scientific Grant Proposal Reviewer (Finance-Financial Economics research portfolios). 

2025-06 to 2025-08: 

Academic position: Assistant Professor in Economics, Finance, and Data Science (invited full-time position by the EIU presidential board).

Expertise portfolios: Lead Senior Lecturer in Financial Econometrics and Research Methods in International Finance and Economics. 

College: Becamex Business School, Eastern International University (EIU), Binh Duong, Vietnam. 

Courses:

1. Advanced Empirical Methods for International Economics [ECON481 Syllabus development]

2. International Financial Management [FIN456]

3. Communication, Information, and Society [INFO101].

2021-2022: 

Position: Lecturer in Finance (Invited position - Visiting), Massey-UEH joint master's programs, ISB-UEH (Vietnam), Massey University (New Zealand). 

Course: 125785 Research and Analytics in Economics and Finance, Master of Finance, Massey University, New Zealand. 

Textbook. Introductory Econometrics for Finance by Chris Brooks. 

Databases used by the lecturer for empirical finance and economics research: Thomson Reuters DataStream [formerly known as TRDS Refinitiv Eikon], nowadays known as the LSEG Workspace [one of the world's most famous databases for finance research]. 

Good news*** [to my best knowledge, which I am glad to know, within 6-12 months after my 2021-22 applied financial econometrics class]: Three [3] MFIN Massey-UEH students in the class have received doctoral admission offers to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Finance at Massey University, New Zealand.