BGF leaders make special remarks during the visit in Vietnam to further the U.S-Vietnam relations
(July 17, Hanoi) – The Boston Global Forum Leaders met with Vietnamese leaders, economists, and scientists during their visit to Khanh Hoa and Hanoi, Vietnam in July to discuss important issues about economic and research development in Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa. Human brain research in Vietnam was also discussed.
On July 11, Khanh Hoa Provincial Government in collaboration with Boston Global Forum (BGF) hosted the “Peace and Innovation” conference in Nha Trang to celebrate the 20 years of diplomacy and friendship between the United States and Vietnam. The event was a featured activity in the framework of Nha Trang Sea Festival 2015.
Attending as key speakers were BGF leaders including Harvard’s Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press and BGF’s Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Professor Thomas Patterson; Harvard’s Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and BGF’s Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Professor John Quelch; BGF’s CEO and Editor-in-chief Nguyen Anh Tuan; MIT’s Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience and BGF’s Member of Board of Thinkers, Professor Robert Desimone. The discussion was centered on the development ofthe economy of Khanh Hoa and identifying strategies to make it become an innovative centre of technology and culture in East Asia. This is an ambition that was shared by Khanh Hoa’s Governor Nguyen Chien Thang in his speech at the Boston Global Forum conference at Harvard Faculty Club on June 10, 2015.
Photo: BGF leaders and Vietnamese scientists attending the Peace and Innovation Conference
New fresh ideas made by Professor Thomas Patterson and John Quelch suggested concrete changes by Khanh Hoa’s administration as well as a call for freedom of thought and communications and creation of a community of scholars in Nha Trang. This generated ebullient discussions by several Vietnamese leaders, economists, and scientists who are enthusiastic in finding solutions to make Nha Trang prosper as well as to build a long-term strategy for maintaining peace and security in the South China Sea where Vietnam is a claimant.
BGF’s Chairman, Governor Michael Dukakis, and its member of Board of Thinkers, Professor Joseph Nye, who could not attend due to their tight schedules, also sent theirs congratulatory videos to that added to the event. This was highly appreciated by Khanh Hoa’s leaders and attending delegates. Governor Dukakis believed that Nha Trang has an opportunity to become an innovative zone in East Asia and hoped the U.S will be extremely helpful in this project. Professor Nye expressed his appreciation of Governor Nguyen Chien Thang’s valuable idea of creating a tightened relationship between Nha Trang and Boston and his idea of building Nha Trang into an innovative centre of technology and culture in East Asia. He also believed in a more comprehensive cooperation between Vietnam and the United States.
BGF leaders were important elements of the conference and made special remarks in tightening the Vietnam- U.S relation as well as bringing resolutions for building Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa into an innovative and creative center of East Asia as well as maintaining peace and security in the South East Asia.
Mr. Shubhranshu Choudhary,Founder & CEO, CGnet Swara; Foreign Policy’s 2014 “Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers”; Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow, Member of Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security, Boston Global Forum delivered a speech in the conference on July 11.
They were also invited as distinguished guests by Khanh Hoa’s Governor, Dr. Nguyen Chien Thang, to the Nha Trang Sea Festival’s opening ceremony which was held on the evening of July 11 in Nha Trang City.
Meeting of Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and BGF’s Member of Board of Thinker Robert Desimone (the Director of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain research)
On July 16, BGF’s CEO and Editor-in-Chef Nguyen Anh Tuan and Member of the BGF Board of Thinkers, Professor Robert Desimone (the Director of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research) met with Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and Minister of Technology and Science Nguyen Quan to discuss how to develop neuroscience research in Vietnam.
Two sides had an open talk on how Vietnam could involve in neuroscience research.
Scientific research is still a matter of concern in Vietnam due to its insufficient government funding as well as lack of capable scientists in conducting relevant and high quality research. In the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam expressed his ambition in developing technologies advances and bio-science in Vietnam as well as in neuroscience. Because America is the leader in these areas, he hoped for a closer collaboration between Vietnam and the U.S in these fields.
(July 12) – Boston Global Forum (BGF) hosted the “Peace and Innovation” conference, in collaboration with Khanh Hoa Provincial Government, on July 11 in Nha Trang to celebrate the 20 years of diplomacy and friendship between the United States and Vietnam. The event was also a featured activity in the framework of Nha Trang Sea Festival 2015.
The conference’s discussion was centered on the development ofthe economy of Khanh Hoa and identifying strategies to make it become an innovative centre of technology and culture in East Asia. This is an ambition that was shared by Khanh Hoa’s Governor Nguyen Chien Thang in his speech at the Boston Global Forum conference at Harvard Faculty Club on June 10, 2015.
Attending as key speakers were BGF leaders including Harvard’s Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press and BGF’s Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Professor Thomas Patterson; Harvard’s Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and BGF’s Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Professor John Quelch; BGF’s CEO and Editor-in-chief Nguyen Anh Tuan; MIT’s Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience and BGF’s Member of Board of Thinkers, Professor Robert Desimone.
BGF’s Chairman, Governor Michael Dukakis, who could not attend due to his tight schedules in university, also sent a congratulatory video to that added to the event.
(December 7th, 2014) – Linda and Llewellyn talk with Congressional adviser Barry Nolan on China’s hegemonic takeover of the South China Sea and its implications for global geopolitics, especially for Vietnam and the United States.
(July 11, 2015) – Today marks the 20th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam. On this occasion, Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee, in collaboration with Nha Trang peace and Innovation Village Corporation and Boston Global Forum, held a full-day scientific conference on “Peace and Innovation” in Vinpearl Resort, Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa.
The conference focus on discussion on strategy for sustainable development of Nha Trang and to build it to be a centre of innovation in culture and technology in East Asia. Delegates includes scholars and leaders from Boston, New York, Tokyo, India, and Vietnam.
Professor Joseph Nye sent his best wishes to the conference, and also shared that the relationship will be advanced by mutual trust and respect among two countries.
Read his full speech here:
On July 11, 1995; President Bill Clinton announced the formal normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The Vietnam – U.S relationship has been prospering over the past 20 years, and Vietnam’s economy has also prospered as the result of the normalization of relations between two countries.
I had a chance to visit Vietnam, met and had a great conversation with the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in 2010, which marked the 15th anniversary of normalization of U.S – Vietnam relations. That was a very interesting conversation, and I returned to Harvard believing that the relations between two countries would progress steadily. That proved to be true. We have witnessed incredible developments in U.S-Vietnam relations over the past 5 years. And I do believe that U.S-Vietnam relations will continue to grow and prosper in the future.
In order for Vietnam to attain more sustainable social and economic achievements, we need a deeper understanding, mutual trust and mutual respect among two countries. Just few days ago, on July 7, 2015, President Obama received and had a dialogue with General Secretary of Vietnam Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong. This visit indicated that American government respects Vietnam’s political institutions even when there still exist differences. Advanced cooperation requires mutual trust between leaders of two countries. I hope that leaders of two countries will be able to increase their trust in each other in the future.
The United States is an important partner in areas of financial investments and innovative economic developments. America can be the source of advanced technologies which will help Vietnam move forward with its development in the long term as well as to protecting its environment. America is the ideal partner for Vietnamese to write their own miracles such as South Korea and Singapore have done.
America also is an important partner in maintaining peace and stability in South East Asia. America wants to promote cooperation, peace and stability among all countries in the region in order for them to rise and prosper. As a part of efforts to do this, I and Governor Michael Dukakis led several international conferences of Boston Global Forum to build the Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific.
We highly appreciate the Governor Nguyen Chien Thang’s valuable ideas of creating a tightened relation between Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa and Boston, Massachusetts which would be a symbol of Vietnam-US relations, and the idea of building Nha Trang Khanh Hoa to be an innovative centre of technology and culture in the East Asia. Boston will be an ideal partner, and the community of scholars and intellectuals in Harvard, MIT and other Boston universities are always ready to help Nha Trang Khanh Hoa to complete that dream.
I hope that the relationship between Vietnam and the U.S will see comprehensive cooperation in several fields in the future.
– Joseph Nye-
University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government;Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum
(July 5, 2015) – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) today announced that it appointed Boston Global Forum’s Editor-in-Chief, Nguyen Anh Tuan, as the first Chair of the International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO-UCLA Chair on Global Citizenship Education. The Committee’s main responsibilities are supporting the research and development of the UNESCO-UCLA Chair.
Photo: Mr. Tuan in a conference in Meiji University, Japan
The appointment is based upon Mr. Tuan’s work as the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Boston Global Forum as well as his vast knowledge and understanding of education and technology in Vietnam.
Mr. Tuan will work with other distinguished professors of UCLA such as Dr. Christina Christie, Dr. Patricia McDonough, Dr. Richard Desjardins, Dr. Robert Rhoads and Dr. John Rogers to promote the work of the UNESCO-UCLA Chair globally and also focuses on research and projects connected to Higher Education in Vietnam.
Nguyen Anh Tuan was the Founder and Chairman of the VietNamNet Media Group and the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of VietNamNet Online Newspaper. Tuan was also the Founder and CEO of the VASC Software and Media Company and VietNet, the first Internet service provider in Vietnam. He was named on the Top 10 Most Outstanding Young Talents of Vietnam in 1996.
Mr. Tuan also has been a member of Harvard Business School Global Advisory Board since 2008.
(July 1, 2015) – The Boston Global Forum selection committee has named four successful candidates to the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program. The Fellows will engage in a year-long program, starting in September, to promote Global Peace and Security.
The Fellows will focus on real-life solutions to conflict in the Pacific, cyber warfare and terrorism, and other modern-day threats to global peace.
The new Fellows are:
Bill Ottman, founder and CEO of Minds.com – a free, open-source and encrypted social networking platform and mobile app, which has opened up a new wave of social media;
Roya Mahboob, CEO of the Afghan Citadel Software Company, a full-service software development company in Afghanistan, and TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In The World for 2013;
Shubhranshu Choudhary, a Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Leading Thinkers of 2014, and founder of CGNet Swara – an Indian mobile phone service that allows citizens to upload and listen to local reports in their own dialect without a smartphone or an internet connection; and,
Nguyen Thi Chau Giang, a celebrated pianist and artist, and cultural activist who leads the humanitarian mission of her organization, International Friends for Vietnam in America, whose goal is to develop musical talents in her homeland.
The Fellowship program, named for former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and chairman of Boston Global Forum, was established to engage young leaders in the promotion of global peace and security.
During the 2015-2016 Program, Fellows will develop and advance an action-oriented plan for peace and security by working with leaders of Boston Global Forum, high-profile scholars with Harvard and MIT, and other media, government, and international relations leaders.
The Fellows will participate in events and symposia associated with Boston Global Forum’s Young Leader Network for Peace and Security. As part of their role, the Fellows will promote adoption of a universal Ethics Code of Conduct for Cyber Peace and Security.
The Fellowship Program aims to enrich the Fellows’ leadership capability by initiating solutions to global problems; engaging youth in the promotion of peace and security in the world; providing opportunities for self-development, and facilitating a dialogue among high-profile young leaders and policymakers from several nations.
About the Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program
The Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellow Program was initiated and is fully funded by the Boston Global Forum. Governor Dukakis, who has devoted his life to the promotion of world peace and democracy, founded Boston Global Forum in 2012 with Harvard Professors Thomas Patterson and John Quelch, and Nguyen Anh Tuan, founder of VietNamNet, and online global newspaper.
The Forum identifies the most impactful issues facing the world and provides practical and meaningful solutions to these problems. Governor Dukakis and Harvard Professor Joseph Nye, a member of the Boston Global Forum Board of Thinkers, have led several initiatives to build a Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific in 2014. Earlier, the Forum played a role in improving worker conditions in Asia’s factories.
The Fellowship program was established in an effort to engage youth leaders in the furtherance of the Framework, and to enrich their leadership capability in the interest of greater global peace and security.
(June 17, 2015) – Boston Global Forum (BGF) today announced that it will devote the remainder of 2015 to confronting the emerging peril of Cyber Warfare.
Boston Global Forum is a think tank—with strong ties to professors of Harvard University and the media—that works for the betterment of society by fostering global peace and security. Boston Global Forum has focused on reducing tensions in the South China Sea, especially over the Spratly Islands, and improving working conditions of the factories that produce goods for the global market.
Cyber peace and security are major concerns for every nation, organization, company and individual because of the unlimited damage cyber attacks cause to national security, the economy and personal privacy and freedom. Particularly worrying are the skyrocketing incidents of state-sponsored cyber attacks.
Boston Global Forum’s 2015 goal is to increase global awareness of the threat of cyber warfare and its consequences and to propose practical solutions to reduce the threat of cyber terrorism and prevent cyber warfare.
In announcing the year-long program, Nguyen Anh Tuan, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Boston Global Forum, said, “We will take steps to create a trend on the Internet, titled, ‘Internet for peace, security and humanity’ to encourage the sharing of positive information and knowledge that can go a long way toward supplanting suspicion, misunderstanding, hatred and violence.”
The Boston Global Forum will call for leaders of every profession including business, education, the arts, law, medicine and government to support for this campaign. All of its activities will be focused on building the Ethics Code of Conduct for Cyber Peace and Security.
In 2013, Boston Global Forum was widely recognized for improving working conditions in Bangladesh, and in 2014, for creating a Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific after a year-long series of international conferences with leading policy-makers, scholars and business leaders.
About Boston Global Forum
Established in 2012, Boston Global Forum brings together, in an open and accessible public forum, an eclectic and engaging spectrum of highly regarded academic leaders, real-world experts, influential thoughts leaders, media experts and promising young leaders.
BGF’s immediate goal is to identify emerging threats to peace and stability around the globe, suggest realistic solutions, and identify possible actions that can be taken to avert armed conflict. The Forum’s ultimate goal is to lessen tensions, promote peace and security, and foster conditions that lead to greater social justice and broader economic prosperity wherever they are most needed.
Assistant for Editorial Board, Boston Global Forum
EDUCATION
Northeastern University, Class of 2017, College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Candidate for Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Political Science
MAJOR
International Affairs and Political Science, Minor in Law and Public Policy
BIOGRAPHY
Scarlett is a Junior at Northeastern University and as an aspiring law student, she is very interested in foreign and domestic policy. In the past, she had interned at the European Parliament and conducted research on nuclear disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva. In terms of domestic politics, she has worked on various campaigns and interned for federal, state, and city level politics. She is an ambassador for NU College of Social Sciences and Humanities and is the Communications Director for College Democrats of Massachusetts. In her free time, she enjoys watching ballet performances, traveling, and photography
(BGF) – This Wednesday, at 6 PM on June 10 (Boston time), Dr. Nguyen Chien Thang, Governor of Khanh Hoa – Vietnam, will deliver a distinguished speech on development potentials of Nha Trang Khanh Hoa. As he shared, “our dream is to make Nha Trang Khanh Hoa to become such a hub of culture, arts, and innovation as Boston is.”
Dr. Nguyen Chien Thang is the current Governor of Khanh Hoa – a stunning coastal province on the South Central Coast of Vietnam, where boasts the famous Cam Ranh Bay which is considered as the finest deepwater shelter in Southeast Asia, and Van Phong Bay which is compared as a graceful and charming sleeping beauty with fantastic oceanic ecosystem. Nha Trang is the capital city of Khanh Hoa, and a beautiful seaside town of Vietnam.
Dr. Nguyen Chien Thang also has a conversation with Governor Michael Dukakis at the same date during his first trip to Boston at Harvard Kennedy School. This year marks both the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the 20th anniversary of normalization of relations between the two countries.
Program Agenda
Distinguished lecture of Dr. Nguyen Chien Thang, Governor of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM, June 10, 2015
Venue: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Speakers and Delegates:
Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-Founder & Chairman, Boston Global Forum
Kitty Dukakis, Former First Lady of Massachusetts
Nguyen Chien Thang, Governor of Khanh Hoa, Vietnam
Professor John Quelch, Co-Founder, Member of Board of Directors, Boston Global Forum; Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Joyce Huntley
Professor Thomas Patterson, Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Boston Global Forum, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Boston Global Forum
Phan Thi Yen
Robert Desimone, Ph.D., Member of BGF Board of Thinkers;Doris and Don Berkey Professor of Neuroscience; Director, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
Lorie Conway, Film Producer
Larry Bell, Composer & Chair of Music Theory, New England Conservatory; Professor of Composition, Berklee College of Music
Professor Thomas Fiedler, Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; Dean of College of Communication, Boston University
Mark Fuller, Founder & CEO, Rosc Global LLC
Rohan Smith, Music Conductor of Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Phillips Exeter Academy
Vanessa Holroyd, Flute Instructor, Phillips Exeter Academy
Ben Wilkinson, Former Director of Vietnam Program, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Lisa Stewart, Senior Vice President, Governance Director of Technology & Operations, Santander Holdings USA
Nguyen Thi Chau Giang, Member of Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security, Boston Global Forum; Composer, Pianist, and Painter
Carlos Zapata, International Architect
Richard Pirozzolo, Member, Boston Global Forum Editorial Board; Founder and Managing Director, Pirozzolo Company Public Relations
Duong Cuong Anh, Member of Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security, Boston Global Forum; Vice President of Cambridge and West Market, Bank of America
Le Mau Tuan, Member of Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security, Boston Global Forum; PhD Candidate, MIT
Phan Huy Dung, Member of Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security, Boston Global Forum
Trang Nguyen, Member of Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security, Boston Global Forum
Nguyen Quoc Tram, Director, Khanh Hoa Foreign Affairs Department
Nguyen Van Tuong, Member of BGF Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security; CEO, Khanh Hoa Aquilaria Company
Phan Mai Thanh, Officer, Khanh Hoa Foreign Affairs Department
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GOVERNOR MICHAEL DUKAKIS
Michael Stanley Dukakis was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Greek immigrant parents. He attended Swarthmore College and Harvard Law School and served in the United States Army from 1955-1957, sixteen months of which was with the support group to the U.S. delegation to the Military Armistice Commission in Korea.
He served eight years as a member of the Massachusetts legislature and was elected governor of Massachusetts three times. He was the Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1988.
Since 1991 he has been a distinguished professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, and since 1996 visiting professor of public policy during the winter quarter at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is Co-Founder and chairman of Boston Global Forum.
He is married to the former Kitty Dickson. They have three children—John, Andrea and Kara—and eight grandchildren.
GOVERNOR NGUYEN CHIEN THANG
Dr. Nguyen Chien Thang has served as Governor of Nha Trang Khanh Hoa, Vietnam and Deputy Secretary of Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee since December 2010. He hold several positions in teaching and management areas. He was professor and Director of Research & Processing Center at Nha Trang University (1979 – 1999). He then moved to work at Khanh Hoa Aquaculture Service and served as Director. He also was Chairman of Organization Commission of Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee.
PROFESSOR THOMAS PATTERSON
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press of Harvard Kennedy School. His book, The Vanishing Voter, looks at the causes and consequences of electoral participation. His earlier book on the media’s political role, Out of Order, received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. His first book, The Unseeing Eye, was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the 50 most influential books on public opinion in the past half century.
He also is author of Mass Media Election and two general American government texts: The American Democracy and We the People. His articles have appeared in Political Communication, Journal of Communication, and other academic journals, as well as in the popular press. His research has been funded by the Ford, Markle, Smith-Richardson, Pew, Knight, Carnegie, and National Science foundation.
Patterson received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1971.
