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Professor Malcolm Gillis
Malcolm Gillis was President of Rice University from 1993 to 2004. Currently, he is University Professor and Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics at Rice. During 1991-1993 he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. Dr. Gillis spent the first 25 years of his professional life teaching economics and bringing economic analysis to bear on important issues of public policy in nearly 20 countries, from the United States and Canada to Ecuador, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia and Korea. From 1986 to 2004, his career was devoted primarily, but not exclusively, to university leadership and to substantial service to his profession, governments, foundations and several for-profit and non-profit boards. Professor Gillis chaired the Vietnam Education Foundation from 2005 to 2008, and he is co-chair of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, which opened in 2008. He served as chair of Bio Houston from 2006 to 2009. He is a founding member of the board at Jacob University in Bremen, Germany, and was also the founder (2001) of the Texas/UK research collaborative on Nanotechnology and Biotechnology, based at Rice University.
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Professor Eugene H.Levy
Professor Levy is Andrew Hays Buchanan Professor of Astrophysics in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Rice University (Texas). He served as Provost of Rice University from 2000 to 2010. Prior to joining Rice, Professor Levy was a faculty member at the University of Arizona, where he was also head of the Planetary Sciences Department; Director of the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory (1983-1994); and Dean of the College of Science (1993-2000). Research by Dr. Levy has focused on a variety of areas of theoretical astrophysics and planetary geophysics, including investigations into the origin, behavior, and influences of cosmic magnetic fields and physical processes associated with star and planet-system formation. Throughout his career Professor Levy has served as a member or chair of numerous science-program and policy advisory committees, both national and international. He currently chairs the Board of Trustees of Associated Universities, Inc., a not-for-profit NGO that operates major scientific facilities in the public interest. He also serves as chair of the NASA Planetary Protection Committee, as a member of the NASA Advisory Council Science Committee, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the NASA Space Biomedical Research Institute. Professor Levy earned his A.B. in physics from Rutgers University and his Ph.D., also in physics, from the University of Chicago.
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Professor Peter Lange
Professor Lange has been the Provost at Duke University since 1999. He joined the Department of Political Science at Duke University after teaching at Harvard University. Professor Lange earned his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975. Professor Lange has been awarded numerous fellowships including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1967 and a Fulbright Research Scholar award (Milan, Italy) in 1986. Professor Lange focuses his research on politics and political economy.
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Dr. Charles J. Henry
Dr. Henry is President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the management of information for research, teaching, and learning. He has been publisher of the Rice University Press, which was recently reborn as the nations first all-digital university press. Dr. Henry serves on the advisory board of Stanford University Libraries and on the boards of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education and the Center for Research Libraries. He is also a member of the European Unions scientific commission on Open Access Publishing in the European Networks (OAPEN), and he serves on the editorial board of Brill Publishers new series on scholarly communication. Previously, Dr. Henry was vice provost and university librarian at Rice University. He received a Fulbright award for the study of medieval literature in Vienna, Austria as a graduate student, and recently received a Fulbright senior scholar grant for library sciences in China. He has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University.
Professor Vo Tong Xuan
Professor Xuan is the Honorary Rector of An Giang University and the former Vice-Rector of Can Tho University. He is well-known in rice research in Vietnam and around the world. Professor Xuan is also a member of many international foundations and councils, including the Rockefeller Foundation, Asian Institute of Management, International Potato Center, and the International Rice Research Institute. He has been awarded many prestigious honors, such as The Peoples Teacher and The Labor Hero.
Mme Dang Thi Hoang Yen
Mdm. Yen Dang is currently the Senator of Vietnam Parliament – Member of the Committee on Culture, Education, Youth and Teenager of the Parliament, President of Tan Tao University, Chair of the Vietnam-US Business Forum, Member of ESCAP Business Advisory Council, Member of ASEAN Business Advisory Council, and Member of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on South-East Asia.
Mdm. Yen Dang graduated from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics. She worked for the Vietnamese Government for 13 years, then moved on to create her first own company in 1993. The company is now known as Tan Tao Group and it grew into the leading Industrial Park & Infrastructure Developer in Vietnam. Tan Tao Group created hundreds of thousands jobs across Vietnam and provided a solid platform for the country’s rapid economic progress. The Group has 21 subsidiaries across multiple sectors including land development, construction and media broadcasting. ITACO – the publicly listed subsidiary of TAN TAO Group promptly became one of seven blue-chip stocks to be established as part of the Global Russell Vietnam Index 10 and the Standard & Poor’s Vietnam 10 Index. According to the 2011 ranking of Vietnam’s top 1000 companies with the highest corporate income tax contribution conducted by the Vietnam Report Company in coordination with VietnamNet and Tax magazine of the General Department of Taxation, ITACO is ranked 129th and 35th among Vietnam's top 200 private companies with the highest corporate income tax contribution.
In 2002, she went to the United States to develop her business in real estate. She founded US Southern Homes, LP, a residential development company and US Southern Corporation, a land development company.
In 2007, Mdm. Dang returned to Vietnam and founded ITA Scholarship, ITA Medical Aid and ITA Veterans Assistance for the purpose of providing education, medical support and financial assistance to the needy in Vietnam. Annually, thousands of scholarships are awarded to outstanding students nationwide. At the same time she donated and founded Tan Tao University (TTU), the country’s first Vietnam–American University that is accredited on US Education standards that will enable its scholars to spend their 3rd year in the US. Graduates from TTU can also be admitted to post-graduate programs internationally.
Mdm. Yen Dang has been awarded with numerous significant prizes and merits such as: Humanitarian Award 2011 by San Francisco - Ho Chi Minh City Sister City Committee, the Prime Minister Certificate of Merit (2009), Golden Rose Award (2008), Typical Entrepreneur Award (2006, 2007), Business Super Star Awards (2007), Long An Province People Committee’s Certificate of Merit (2007, 2008, 2009), HoChiMinh City People Committee’s Certificate of Merit (2006, 2007)…
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