Board of Advisors of Ysummit 2010

Dr. Vu Minh Khuong

Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of Singapore)

Dr. Vu Minh Khuong has joined Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy as Assistant Professor since 2006. His research interest concern economic growth, productivity, competitiveness and the related issues such as the impact of ICT, e-government, and economic integration. Dr. Khuong has published his articles in a wide range of international publications, including Journal of Scandinavian Journal of Economics, German Economics Review, Energy Policy, and Journal of Policy Modeling. He has provided consulting services to IMF, World Bank, IFC, USAID, KPMG, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and Infocomm Authority of Singapore.

Dr. Vu Minh Khuong is from Vietnam, where he has held positions of CEO of Songcam Chemical Company, Chief Economic Adviser to the Mayor of Haiphong City, Vice-Chairman of Dinhvu Economic Zone, and Research Fellow at the Prime Minister’s Research Commission. Dr. Khuong had served in the Vietnamese army for three years (1981-1983) before he began his professional career. He received PhD (in Public Policy) and MBA degrees from Harvard University and BA in Mathematics from Hanoi University. Dr. Khuong has previously taught at Suffolk University (Boston) and Keio University (Tokyo).

Dr. Khuong's teaching portfolio centers on public policy analysis, financial management, and economic development. He has been giving talks about the duties as well as opportunities of the new generations of Vietnamese youths in this era.

Mr. Han Vo-Ta

Board Director, City Developments Limited

Founder, MIT Club of Singapore

Founder and Chairman, Vietnam2020 (Association of Vietnamese Professionals in Singapore)

Mr. Vo-Ta was an international banker, having worked with Bank of Montreal for 12 years in Montreal, Toronto, and Manila, before moving to Singapore where he has been living since 1981. He left banking and set up his company specializing in corporate turnaround and has advised a number of major clients in Singapore before joining Hong Leong Group where he has held senior executive and board director positions in the property development, finance, investment, hotel and manufacturing arms of the Group, including General Manager of Singapore Finance Ltd., CEO of hotel group Millennium & Copthorne International. He was also a Senior Advisor of UBS AG (Wealth Management).

Mr. Vo-Ta left Vietnam in 1968 and returned 20 years later in 1988. During the early years of "DOI MOI", he has contributed greatly to strengthening the ties and promotion of business between Singapore and Vietnam. Mr. Vo-Ta has been a regular contributor to the Saigon Economic Times since 1991. His "Letters from Singapore" series of articles on Economic, Finance and Management were compiled in a book, which has become one of the best selling economic books published in Vietnam.

Currently, Mr. Vo-Ta is a Board Director of City Developments Limited and The Arts House (The Old Parliament House Limited). He was the founder of the MIT Club of Singapore (1983), the Singapore Classical Guitar Society, the Association of Vietnamese Professionals in Singapore (Vietnam2020), past President of the Canadian Business Association of Singapore, and Member of the Board of Trustees of SIM University (UniSIM). He is also a classical guitarist from the Vietnam National Conservatory of Music (1962-67) and a composer of Vietnamese songs with 40 CDs to his credit.

Mr. Vo-Ta graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. (1972) and an M.S. (1973) in Management. He was the recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management Senior Prize (1972) and the MIT William L. Stewart Award (1973) and was also a Teaching Assistant of the Management Laboratory course at MIT. His MIT Master thesis, written in 1973, was on the subject "The Export Processing Zone and Vietnam After the War" and was translated into Vietnamese in 1989.

Mr. Albert Antoine

Associate Director, Antony Consulting Pte. Ltd

Mr. Antoine is an international business development and management consultant who currently serves as Associate Director of Antony Consulting, overseeing its Vietnam operation. He also provides strategy and management consulting for many leading US and European MNCs entering Asia Pacific markets. He has had more than 20 years of experience in the ICT (Information - Communications - Technology) industry. He started his career as Technology Advisor on a World Bank project in Madagascar. After moving to Singapore in 1988, he founded his own consulting firm, providing consulting services in the area of Artificial Intelligence, and subsequently, joined ILOG, a global IT solution & consulting company. He previously served on the board of many portfolio companies advising them on management and marketing strategies as part of VinaCapital, a private equity investment and venture capital firm in Vietnam.

Mr. Antoine speaks fluent Vietnamese, French, and English. He holds an M.Sc. in Management of Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as well as an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the International Institute of Robotic and Artificial Intelligence of Marseille, France.