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.
