HA MINH, TRAN VU (Senior Business Consultant, Legal Assistant )

Ha Minh, Tran Vu is an experienced infrastructure projects manager and policy consultant in Vietnam and Japan. She is one of a few Vietnamese with a wide range of expertise in business management, accounting, audit, policy-making, and law. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Business Management, a Bachelor of Law from Hitotsubashi University (Japan), and a Master of Professional Accounting from Aoyama University (Japan).

Experience:

Consulting with Japanese Governmental Agencies (JICA, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) about Infrastructure Projects and international development in the global Big 4 Accounting Audit firm (August 2019 – March 2022)  

• Survey on Infrastructure Finance in Urban Development in Southeast Asia Countries,
• Research on sustainable and resilient urban development in Da Nang;
• Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Development Strategy in Ningbo, China;
• Support for the international expansion of Japanese real estate companies;
• Market Sounding for new electric bike manufacturers in Okinawa, Japan
• Emergency Response for the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Tax and Accounting Consulting for large-scale city development in Ha Noi, Vietnam
• Survey on the introduction of self-reliance support services for the purpose of functional recovery
• Feasibility studies of Flower Distribution Center in Da Lat city, Vietnam
• Survey on overseas’ transport fare system and Mobility as a Service (MAAS)’s existing condition
• Survey of needs and actual conditions in overseas urban development
• Data Collection Survey on Public Infrastructure and Service Development in Ho Chi Minh City    

Working as a project manager in a major Japanese railways and real estate development company (April 2012 – July 2018)

• Successful bidding procedure for new Airport Concession Project Fujisan Shizuoka Airport, privatization project under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme of Shizuoka Prefecture Japan
• Planning & operating the first Vietnam Real Estates Selling Project in Japan
• Developed “hikari” project at Binh Duong new city:
• Managing all the commercial properties in railways line Japan

Publication:

Legal issues facing artificial intelligence-utilizing audit firms, graduation thesis (2022)

Business and Legal Specialized Dictionary in 3 languages Japanese-English-Vietnamese approx. 10,000 words (2018- current)

Community Projects:

Japanese Law for Community Project, Founder, and executive of the project, translated 18 major Japanese law into Vietnamese     Vietnamese learning Japanese Law Community-JLC, Founder and Leader of the Community, Vietnamese law learners residing in Japan building Facebook Group Community to share and learn Japanese law knowledge       

Practice Areas/ Service Areas

Infrastructure and real estate development

Company Governance

Company & Project Management

Education

Master of Laws of England and Wales, Leeds Beckett University (2023, expected)

LLB, Hitotsubashi University (2022)

Master of Professional Accounting, Aoyama Gakuin University (2020)

Bachelor of Commerce and Business Management, Hitotsubashi University (2012)

Honors

Awarded Japanese Government’s MEXT Scholarship for full tuition fees and living expenses (April 2007 – March 2012)

Awarded Symbolic Student Grant – Academic Field (October 2006)

Awarded Faculty of Banking’s Excellent Scholarship (September 2005 – March 2007)

Achieved the best Result in the Entrance Examination of The University of Economics (August 2005)

Languages

Japanese

English

Vietnamese