Ngụy Thị Khanh

Ngụy Thị Khanh (born 1976) is executive director, and founder, of the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) in Vietnam.[1] Khanh[2] is also the advocacy coordinator for the Vietnam Rivers Network (VRN).[3] In 2018 Khanh won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work with Vietnamese governmental agencies developing long-term sustainable energy strategies that reduced dependence on coal power.[4][5][6]

Khanh was born in 1976 in Bắc Am, a village in Bắc Giang Province.[6] She graduated from the Institute of International Relations (Học viện Quan hệ Quốc tế) in Hanoi.[3] Since 2008 she has been the coordinator of the advocacy efforts of the Vietnam Rivers Network (VRN), where she initially worked on limiting water pollution from mining activities, and then broadened the emphasis to include other pollution sources and strategic energy policy.[3] She was an official observer for Vietnam at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[1]

See also

Water supply and sanitation in Vietnam

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 "Nguy Thi Khanh - Vietnam" (in German). Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. 2015. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018.
  2. ↑ Vietnamese people are usually referred to by their given name, since the family names are so common.
  3. 1 2 3 "Nguy Thi Khanh". SEED, a UN organization. 2013. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Conoce a los siete premios 'Nobel de medio ambiente' de este año". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 23 April 2018. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Phương Lan (23 April 2018). "Bà Ngụy Thị Khanh giành Giải thưởng Môi trường Goldman 2018". Báo Tin tức (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 23 April 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Người phụ nữ giúp loại bỏ hàng trăm triệu tấn khí thải ở Việt Nam" [Woman helps eliminate hundreds of millions of tons of waste in Vietnam]. VN Express (in Vietnamese). 15 May 2018. Archived from the original on 19 May 2018.
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