Through the ASEAN-U.S. S&T Fellowship, Dr. Bui helped Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to develop formal comprehensive guidelines to improve water resource management in Vietnam. He also implemented activities to bridge science-policy gaps as they relate to water, including enhancing regional water cooperation by building a regional information and networking platform and managing a website to share water management information. He is currently Deputy Director of the Water Resource Monitoring Department at the National Centre for Water Resources Planning & Investigation and founder of the Vietnam Water Cooperative Initiative under the auspice of the Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Dr. Bui holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Water Resource University in Vietnam (2005) and a Ph.D. from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan (2011).