Trinh Nguyen is a nonresident scholar in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a senior economist covering emerging Asia at Natixis, based in Hong Kong. Nguyen joined Natixis in October 2015. She previously worked at HSBC as an ASEAN economist from 2011 to 2015.
Nguyen has been awarded best economist on Vietnam by Asia Money. She was a top-ranked regional economist, also by Asia Money. Nguyen’s analysis serves fixed income, equity, and FX markets.
Prior to HSBC, Nguyen was a consultant at the World Bank conducting research on foreign direct investment and indicators for country-specific labor market trends and patterns. She holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs and International Economics, with a specialization on Southeast Asia, from Johns Hopkins University.
Nguyen is regularly featured in Current Economics, a journal that picks top sell-side research reports, and as a guest on CNBC, as well as key international and local news outlets for her insights on emerging Asia.