Ngụy Thị Khanh

Executive director and founder of the Green Innovation and Development Centre in Vietnam

Ngụy Thị Khanh (born 1976) created the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) in Vietnam.[1] Khanh also works for the Vietnam Rivers Network (VRN).[2] In 2018, Khanh won the Goldman Environmental Prize. It was for her work on sustainable energy.[3][4][5]

Nguy Thi Khanh, 2016

Early life and career change

Khanh was born in 1976 in Bắc Am, a village in Bắc Giang Province.[5] She went to the Institute of International Relations (Học viện Quan hệ Quốc tế) in Hanoi.[2] She was Vietnam's person at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[1]

Notes and references change

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Nguy Thi Khanh - Vietnam" (in German). Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. 2015. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Nguy Thi Khanh". SEED, a UN organization. 2013. Archived from the original on 23 April 2018.
  3. "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. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  4. 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.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "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.