Dr Le Thanh Forsberg is currently establishing a consulting organization through which she will continue to work as a policy specialist and development consultant. Her areas of expertise cover international development cooperation and welfare politics in developing countries, with a focus on Vietnam. Dr Forsberg’s current projects focus on the health economy and social protection, and their implications for development and poverty reduction.

Dr Forsberg remains a network member of the Oxford – Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship. She also has a broad network and expertise in government relations and she has conducted policy analysis and consultancies for governmental, international and think-tank organizations on donor development strategies and aid coordination in recipient countries. Some of her major assignments have been for the UNDP, OECD, FRIDE, Oxford Analytica and government agencies in Sweden and Vietnam.

Her recent research publications include: Le Thanh Forsberg, 2007, Defining Strong Ownership: Institutional Determinants and Stakeholder Interests in Vietnamese Development Planning, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International (monograph); Le Thanh Forsberg, 2008, Vietnam: The Making of Recipient Ownership and Responses to Japanese and Swedish Aid, in Alf Morten Jerve, Yasatami Shimomura, Annette Skovsted Hansen, (Eds.), Aid Relationships in Asia: A Study of Japanese and Nordic Aid in Asia, London: Palgrave: McMillan; Forsberg, L.T & Kokko, A. (2008), The Role of Donors in Vietnamese Development Planning, in Kokko, A. (ed.) Vietnam: 20 Years of Doi Moi, Hanoi: The Gioi Publishing House & Vietnam Academy of Social Science.

Dr Forsberg received a Doctorate in development studies and institutional economics from Lund University in Sweden in 2007. Her research area was the politics of foreign aid and the defining of ownership in development planning of recipient countries. In 2000, she completed the Uppsala Master Program in International Studies, with major in peace and conflict research and international relations. Her research focused on regionalism and security cooperation in Southeast Asia. She obtained a Bachelor Degree in International Studies from Vietnam National University in 1998.

Her CV is available here and she can be contacted at: lethanh.forsberg[AT]gmail.com