Nguyen Thanh Thuy

BIOGRAPHY - NGUYEN THANH THUY

Nguyen Thanh Thuy (Ms) is director for Research Center for Inclusion (RCI). RCI is constituted as a result of the localization of the Netherlands Leprosy Relief (NLR) Mekong that operated in Vietnam in 1981 and managed programs on leprosy disease control, disability and inclusion of persons with disability in Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam, China, Laos and Thailand. RCI continues NLR’s expertise, experience and networks established throughout 35 years in Vietnam and Mekong region.

 Over 18 years of her professional role, Thuy works on different development projects, implemented in Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia, that prioritize on disability and inclusion, policy advocacy, community-based rehabilitation, capacity building for partner organizations, and gender equality. Thuy starts her employment journey as an Intern for Oxfam and later program officer. When Oxfam activates its strategy to merge all Oxfam organizations into One Oxfam, which results in shrinking its programs, Thuy moved to a Vietnamese NGO - Vietnam Association for Education for All where her key responsivities aim at providing technical support and advice to partner organizations on adult education, lifelong learning and early childhood education projects. Thuy finds her true self at RCI where she is passionate to dedicate her efforts working and interacting with people with disability, the population she wishes to prove for their contribution to society's growth, not for their incapability as perceived.  

Thuy holds a master degree on International Development that she obtains from Flinders University, Australia awarded to her under the Australian Awarded Scholarship. She is also awarded by Australian government (through Australian Aids and Aus4skills program) a project Improving sexual and reproductive health rights for deaf people, especially for deaf women in Vietnam. Thuy is fluent in Vietnamese sign language that allows her to communicate with the deaf in Vietnam.