2005
Khuat Thi Hai Oanh
Founder and Executive Director
Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives
Khuat Thi Hai Oanh is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI), an NGO that improves the quality of life for the most marginalized populations in Vietnam through community empowerment and policy advocacy. Under her leadership, SCDI reaches out to and helps improve the social and economic well-being of thousands of sex workers, drug users, people living with HIV, marginalized children, and members of the LGTBQ community.
In her other capacity, Oanh is the Chair of the Council of Representative of APCASO - an Asia Pacific network of civil society organizations work to improve well-being of vulnerable populations. She was honored as a Young Global Leader in 2009 by the World Economic Forum. In 2017, she was listed among the 50 most-influential women by Forbes Vietnam.
The 2005 World Fellows
The 2005 Yale World Fellows include the vice president of a leading South Korean conglomerate, the chief of staff for the President of Lithuania, the Philippine Secretary of Energy, the director of Israel’s first legal advocacy group for Arab minority rights, the former Minister of Trade of Panama, the Chief Superintendent of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, one of China’s most influential television anchormen and the former governor of the third largest state in Venezuela. “Now in its fourth year, the Yale World Fellows Program has created a vibrant network of leaders spanning more than 50 countries around the world,” said Yale President Richard Levin. “With the selection of the...Read More
