Two Vietnamese named young global leaders
Vietnam’s Nguyen Thanh Hung and Pham Thi Hue are among 250 Young Global Leaders of 2007, the World Economic Forum (WEF) announced Tuesday in Switzerland.
Nguyen Thanh Hung, who has a doctorate in automation from the Russian Academy of Sciences and other academic accomplishments, is the founder and chairman of the Sovico Group, one of the largest companies in Vietnam.
Founded in 1992, Sovico is a dynamic international trading and investment company with offices in more than 10 countries.
Hung has also set up a charity fund of US$1 million to assist poor children.
Pham Thi Hue is the founder of Hai Phong Red Flamboyant in northern Vietnam, a support group for people living with HIV/AIDS, founded in 2005.
Hue was infected with HIV by her husband but refused to be shamed into silence unlike most Vietnamese with the disease.
She is now the public face of Mothers and Wives, an HIV/AIDS support group sponsored by a Norwegian NGO and her city administration.
She was named an ‘Asian hero’ by the US’s Time magazine in 2004 and became a UN volunteer in 2005.
Initiated in 2004 by WEF’s executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, the Young Global Leaders program acknowledges the outstanding contributions to the community by executives, public figures, and intellectuals around the world.
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