Full Name
Pham Hoang Hai
Job Title
Head of Partnership Group
Company
The Vietnam Business Council for Sustainable Development
Speaker Bio
With 27 years of experience, Mr. Hai had a valuable contribution to Develop Sustainable Strategy and Sustainable policy for fostering both of State and Private Sector.

Since 2015, Mr. Hai has participated in the consultancy for the issuing of Resolution no.19 by Vietnamese Government on the Improvement of Business Environment and Enhancement of National Competitiveness. Mr. Hai also acts as technical team leader to develop the Corporate Sustainability Index (CSI) – the first Vietnamese index for measuring sustainability – from 2014 to 2016, and run for the embedded of CSI into Resolution no.19. In which accordingly, VCCI should collaborate with other Ministries and departments for training the application of CSI in business management and ranking companies based on CSI since 2016 up to date.

Mr. Hai also had particular involvement in the completion of the Project on Evaluating low-carbon technologies in corporate with JICA. Output of the Project is valuable information for the revision of Vietnam’s Nationally Determined Commitment in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. Recently, Mr. Hai has been invited by the Minister of Ministry of Natural Resource Environmental for preparing Circular Economy Concept paper for next decade of Viet Nam socio economic development.

From 2005 to 2011, Mr. Hai took the lead in the implementation of CSR Awards – in which businesses with best practices in corporate social responsibility was named, first applied in shoes and garment, then in multi industries.

Furthermore, since 1999 to 2015, Mr. Hai has participated in:

The composing of Participation Planning Method (1999 – 2002)

Policy advocacy for Setting Rural infrastructure based on participation method (1999 – 2005);

Advocate Democracy Circular of the Government at grassroot level by using Participation Commune Budget analysis tool. (2005 – 2009)

Taking leading role on running difference Woman’s rights programs such as (1) Enhancing livelihood for woman throughout micro credit program;(2) Anti-woman trafficking; (3) Gender balance in development aid project;(3) leading anti -dumping campaign for shoes sector in 2006; (3) Vocational training program for HIV infected specific for the girl and woman…. (1999 -2009)

Involving business sector in anti-corruption programs through activities on training, research and policy advocacy (2010 – 2015)

He served as Project Manager of Global Compact Vietnam.

Mr. Pham Hoang Hai graduated from Hanoi Resources University in 1995. In addition, he was also granted the certificate of Social Audit (SA 8000) – SAI, USA, the certificate of Corporate Social Responsibility – Asian Institute of Management, and Sustainable Business Management – Shumacher College, UK.
Pham Hoang Hai