Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Saturday decided to establish his own economic consulting team of 15 prominent experts.

The head of the team is Dr Vu Viet Ngoan who just left the position of Chairman of the National Financial Supervisory Commission.

Five members of the team are economic professors from foreign universities: Prof Tran Van Tho from Japan’s Waseda University, Dr Tran Ngoc Anh from the United States’ Indiana University and Prof Vu Minh Khuong from the National University of Singapore.

The other two are Prof Nguyen Duc Khuong from France’s IPAG Business School and Dr Vu Thanh Tu Anh, Director of Research at the Fullbright Economics Teaching Programme in Viet Nam.

The team also includes Truong Van Phuoc who is the new Chairman of the National Financial Supervisory Commission, former Planning and Investment minister Bui Quang Vinh, and Dr Vu Bang, former chairman of the State Securities Commission.

The other team members are Dr Tran Du Lich, former head of the HCM City Institute of Economic Research, Prof Tran Tho Dat, rector of the National Economics University together with Dr Tran Dinh Thien, Head of the Viet Nam Institute of Economics, and Dr Nguyen Dinh Cung, President of the Central Institute for Economic Management.

Also joining the team are Prof Nguyen Xuan Thang, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Prof Nguyen Quang Thuan, President of the Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences. — VNS