Le Viet Phu

Lecturer, Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, Fulbright University Vietnam

Le Viet Phu is a senior faculty at the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management at Fulbright University Vietnam. Le's main areas of research include various environmental issues and policies in Vietnam, with a special focus on power system designs and renewable integration, energy policy, climate policy, and other emerging issues in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam. Le received his doctoral degree in agricultural and resource economics from University of California at Berkeley in 2013, a master's degree in international and development economics from the Australian National University in 2004. Phu was the principal researcher of the USAID-funded Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative which investigated the water-food-energy nexus to facilitate public policy dialogues on environmentally sustainable economic development, raising agricultural productivity, and improving household livelihoods in the five countries of the Lower Mekong Basin, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam during 2014-2018. He has ongoing research projects in the following areas: agricultural transformations, crop and aquacultural systems, land use, and local livelihoods, climate change and impacts, sea level rise, land subsidence and saline intrusions, global energy challenges, climate policy, and domestic energy agenda, air pollution and health impacts, water governance, upstream hydropower and energy development in the Lower Mekong Basin, and regional ecosystems under the impact of economic development and environmental transformations.