Hai Hong Trinh is a doctoral researcher in sustainable and climate finance at the School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand. His research focuses on the trajectories between climate-related risk factors and financial markets.

Hai Hong Trinh is affiliated with the School of Economics and Finance at Massey University, Palmerston North, 4442 New Zealand. He is a research mentor and executive board member of the British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Interdisciplinary Perspectives Special Interest Group (IPSIG-BAFA). Hai is a regular organizing committee member of the Financial Management Association (FMA) International. He is the board executive member of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives SIG founded in 1997 in order to promote interdisciplinary and critical research within the British Accounting and Finance Association - BAFA. 

He is an ad hoc referee with publications appearing in numerous international journals; some of them are Applied Economics (AE), Economic Modelling (EM), British Journal of Management (BJM), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (PBFJ), Energy Economics (EE), Emerging Markets Review (EMR), Finance Research Letters (FRL), International Review of Financial Analysis (IRFA), International Review of Economics & Finance (IREF), Journal of Financial Stability (JFS), Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE), etc. Regarding the ABDC journal list for 2019, Hai was ranked #12 among the most prolific national authors for the number of A/A*-ranked publications in the ABDC list.

His research portfolios include climate finance, climate economics, corporate finance, sustainable finance, international finance, applied econometrics, applied economics, and international macroeconomics.