Ton Nu Thi Minh

Ton Nu Thi Ninh
President of Founding Committee of Tri Viet University Project

Madame Ton-Nu-Thi Ninh is currently the President of the Founding Committee of Tri Viet University, to be opened in Viet Nam in 2010. Tri Viet University ambitions to be innovative in the context of a Viet Nam in transition: a private enterprise dedicated to public service, a strongly-rooted Vietnamese entity boldly open to the modern world. Madame Ninh obtained her Agregation in France (Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay-Aux-Roses) and in the United Kingdom (Cambridge University). With this university project, Madame Ninh thus reaches back to her first calling, having started her career as an academic teaching at the Sorbonne.

For more than two decades Madame Ninh was a diplomat in Viet Nam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, specializing in multilateral institutions and global issues. From 2000 to 2003, she was Viet Nam's Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and Head of Mission to the European Union in Brussels. From 2002 to 2007 Madame Ninh served in the 11th National Assembly of Viet Nam as Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, focusing on North America (particularly, the United States) and Western Europe. Madame Ninh has been consistently active in social issues, including post-war legacies such as the Agent Orange/dioxin issue. She has a special interest in gender and recently established the Global Vietnamese Women Network, a women’s NGO linking up Vietnamese women in Vietnam and abroad actively contributing to Viet Nam's international integration.