(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
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Phan Huy Dung, Member of Young Leaders Network for Peace and Security, Boston Global Forum
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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.