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.

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. 

Hai's research outputs have been published in many peer-review journals and handbooks; some of them are Energy Economics (A*-ABDC/3*CABS/Q1 top 5%), Elsevier's highly ranked Emerging Markets Review (EMR), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (A-ABDC/Q1/ISI); Finance Research Letters (FRL), Applied Economics (A-ABDC); Business Strategy and the Environment (A-ABDC/3*-CABS/Q1 top 10%); Regional Studies Regional Science (A-ranked ABDC) by leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Emerald, IGI Global, World Scientific Publishing, etc. Hai is ad-hoc referee for international journals such as Energy Economics (EE), Economic Modelling (EM), Finance Research Letters (FRL), International Review of Financial Analysis (IRFA), International Review of Economics and Finance (IREF), Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (JIFMA), Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment (JSFI), Research in International Business and Finance (RIBAF), and several other well-ranked journals.

Besides the mainstream research portfolios, Hai applies empirical methods in a wide range of research areas in social sciences contributing not only to the scientific world but also solving read world's challenges for sustainable transformation and development, for instance, digitalization, climate change, global warming, inequalities, poverty and human development, etc. 

Besides peer-review journals, he has been involved in the program committees via several scientific and organizing roles as either a referee, session chairperson, or discussant for top-tier finance and economic conferences; namely Financial Management Association International (FMA), American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) and several other national, regional and international associations. Along with his scientific services, Hai has been a member of several well-known associations and networks including the Society for Financial Studies (SFS), American Finance Association (AFA), American Economic Association (AEA), British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), British Academy of Management (BAM), European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE),  Political Economy of finance, Finance and Banking Network (FBNet), Economic Policy Network (EPNet) of Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts - AVSE Global and among other leading organizations. 

Furthermore, Hai is particularly focusing on developing research labs, societies, networks and scholarly groups where he found young scholars are central for bright future scientific generations with a proactive collaboration, support, and direction with senior experts, scholars, and advisers across the globe.