Dr. Nam Dang Vu

Dr. Hoai Nam Dang Vu joined the Kiel Institute’s Global Cooperation and Social Cohesion in March 2025. Dr. Dang obtained a Bachelor degree of economics in Hanoi, Vietnam, and a Master of Business Administration at KU Leuven, Belgium. He later completed his doctorate on behavioral economics at the University of Copenhagen, where his thesis won the “SCIENCE PhD Award of the year in 2023.” His research is inter alia focused on the international wildlife trade, One Health, economic valuation methods, health-related consumer behavior, and social marketing. As a postdoc, he has worked at the University of Iceland, the University of Copenhagen, and as a technical specialist and consultant for various UN agencies and international organizations on environmental protection and global health.

Beyond being published in peer-reviewed journals such as Ecological Economics, his research has generated significant international media coverage, including TV documentaries and podcasts by the BBC and ARTE most notably the award-winning ARTE-documentary Rhino Dollars.

At the Kiel Institute, Dr. Dang is a member of the Leibniz Lab “Pandemic Preparedness: One Health, One Future” where he will coordinate a diverse team of researchers from several participating Leibniz Institutes to develop an analytical framework and a roadmap for policymakers to identify the most important themes and potential international conflicts that should be addressed in a new “Global Accord on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.”