Bio

Ha Vien is a Ph.D. Candidate at North Carolina State University. Her research interests are:

• Environmental/Energy Policy and Policy Process
• Renewable Energy and Just Transitions
• Sustainability and SDGs

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Area(s) of Expertise

Working as a government officer for some years, Ha is experienced in how federal, state and local government operate, and how public managers participate to make collective actions. Ha has had a wide range of international experiences from US, Sweden, Japan, ASEAN and China as a scholarship holder of:
• Chevening (UK government)
• VYLA (Indiana University Bloomington and Vietnam government)
• IATSS Forum (Honda Inc., Japan)
• Swedish Institute and other scholarships
Ha got her MPA from Indiana University Bloomington, concentrated on Public Policy Analysis and International Development, that has equipped her with quantitative and qualitative research skills through STATA, R, SAS... and now she is working on learning Python, GIS and other statistical analysis software to support her research interest. She also consulted for Vietnam Government and World Bank (i.e. IFC) in Vietnam during her study at IUB as a class task.

Publications

• Fostering Local Sustainability: How Higher Education Institutions Advance SDGs through Community Engagement. , Research Square (2026)
• Accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level: Unpacking governance processes and tensions , Earth System Governance (2025)
• Institutions and institutional effects , (2025)
• Decoding the Relationship Between Economic Growth and Fiscal Health , Public Finance Journal (2024)
• Individual and interlinked SDGs: higher education institutions and metro area sustainability performance , International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (2024)