Tue Anh Nguyen

Dr Tue Anh Nguyen

Small Group Project 2022-23

Ancient and modern public services: cross-disciplinary provocations

Public services are at the heart of current academic and political debates on the proper relationship between the state, markets and democracy. They are also central to the ways in which countries have responded to Covid, and discussions of public policy for dealing with climate change, especially the importance of collective action. There is also an historical debate about the interpretation of widespread and growing evidence of the development of public services such as water supply, urban planning, and roads, in ancient civilisations across the world, and the relative role of collective action and authoritsrian rulers. These debates are related because both concern the efficiency or otherwise of public sector production of just services.

More information

Areas of interest

Public Policy Industrial Policy China East Asia Innovation Political Economy Public Services Energy Policy

Cohort

FG8

Biography

Dr. Tue Anh Nguyen is PSIRU’s senior research fellow in public policy. Previously, at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (UCL-IIPP), she was Mission-Oriented Innovation Research Fellow, working with Professor Mariana Mazzucato on industrial policies and conditionalities. In October 2024, she co-authored the best-selling book “Chip Battlefield: China's National Innovation Strategies and Policies in the 21st century" in Vietnamese. The book analyses the key innovation policy pillars of the U.S. and China in the development of semiconductor sectors. Between 2018 and 2021, she was a visiting scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and between 2017-2018, a postdoctoral visiting fellow at Growth Lab, Centre for International Development (CID), Harvard Kennedy School.

Dr Tue Anh Nguyen is Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and holds a postgraduate teaching certificate. She has also been trained in Economics teaching methods at the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick. She has taught, and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate research at UCL, York St John University, University of Greenwich… She was also invited to lecture at numerous international universities, including Foreign Trade University (Vietnam), NUS (Singapore), Dundee University (Scotland), Universite Catholique de Lille (France)…. Between 2017 and 2021, she co-founded the Vietnam Summer School in Research (VSSR) to teach research methodologies and theories for over 100 young scholars and lecturers annually.

Biographical details correct as of 20.04.26