Nguyen Dang Dao

Rihla Initiative Regional Coordinator for South & Southeast Asia

Email: dao [at] bourseandbazaar.org

Nguyen Dang Dao is the Rihla Initiative Regional Coordinator for South and Southeast Asia at the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation. He is currently a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and the founding co-president of the Young Urbanists of Southeast Asia, a non-profit promoting sustainable urban development across Southeast Asia. His expertise includes inclusive urban planning, climate adaptation and justice, and diplomacy. Dao has extensive experience with the United Nations, Cornell Center for Cities, and various government agencies. He has been appointed the COP 29 Youth Delegate and Head Delegate of the ASEAN Delegation to the G20 Youth Summit.