Anh Vu National Centre for Social ResearchUnited Kingdom

I am a political ecologist and interdisciplinary scholar with over two decades of experience at the forefront of both development practice and academic research. I currently lead a £1.3 million Wellcome Trust-funded research project examining the health impacts of climate change on precarious outdoor workers in major cities across Vietnam. I also hold the position of Research Director and Climate Change Lead at NatCen International, the global social policy arm of the National Centre for Social Research (UK). My work is grounded in a commitment to challenge-driven research, intellectual rigour, and a strong emphasis on fostering academic excellence, policy impact, and community resilience. My research centres on the complex socio-political and ecological dimensions of climate change, climate-induced health impacts and vulnerabilities in low-and middle-income countries, locally-led adaptation, renewable energy transitions, agrarian conflicts, resource governance, urban sustainability, and livelihood transformations. I have collaborated extensively with major multilateral and bilateral institutions (e.g., UNDP, UN Statistics Division, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) while also providing expert consultancy to governments, and inter/national NGOs (e.g., Asia Development Alliance, Oxfam, Transparency International, Global Philanthropy Indices, Management and Sustainable Development Institute) My scholarly work is widely recognised in high-impact peer-reviewed journals such as World Development, Sustainability Science, Contemporary Politics, Community Development, VOLUNTAS, World Development Perspectives, and International Development Planning and Review. In particular, my two decades of research on civil society and authoritarianism have been acclaimed by Southeast Asian scholars for making "high-order" contributions to the field.