Curriculum Vitae
Trang Le
Early Career Academic Fellow, UNSW Business School · Sydney, Australia
trang.le@unsw.edu.auEducation
Ph.D. in Economics
University of New South Wales, Australia
Dissertation: Fertility and Human Capital Investment in Developing Countries
Advisors: Professor John Piggott, Dr. George Kudrna, Professor Isabella Dobrescu
M.A. in Public Policy
National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan
M.A. in Macroeconomics
National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan
B.A. in Economics
Foreign Trade University, Vietnam
Appointments
Early Career Academic Fellow
School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia
Research Assistant
CEPAR, University of New South Wales
Visiting Researcher
GRIPS, Tokyo, Japan
Research Associate
Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Lecturer
Banking Academy, Hanoi, Vietnam
Honors & Awards
- Scientia Scholarship for Ph.D. Program, UNSW — Australia 2019 – 2023
- MEXT Scholarship — Tokyo, Japan 2013 – 2015
- IMF-Japan Scholarship — Tokyo, Japan 2011 – 2012
- Best Policy Paper, GRIPS — Tokyo, Japan 2019
- Scholarship for Excellent Study Performance, Posco Group
- Odon Vale Honor Scholarship for Excellent Study Performance
- Great Eastern Singapore Scholarship for Excellent Study Performance
- Scholarship for Excellent Study Performance, Ministry of Education 2006, 2007, 2009
- Full score (30/30) and 1st rank, National University Entrance Examination
Grants
- UNSW Business Sustainable Development Grant (AUD 4,000) 2023
- UNSW Tuition Fee Exemption for Ph.D. Program 2019 – 2023
- Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Grant (USD 8,000) 2019
Teaching
School of Economics, University of New South Wales
- Lecturer in charge — Econometrics (PG) 2024
- Co-Lecturer — Introductory Econometrics (UG) 2023
- Instructor — Macroeconomics Seminar (PG) 2022
- Tutor in Charge — Introductory Econometrics (UG) 2020 – 2022
- Tutor — Macroeconomics 1 (UG) 2020 – 2023
- Tutor — Macroeconomics 2 (UG) 2020 – 2023
School of Economics, University of Sydney
- Tutor — ECOS3997 Interdisciplinary Impact in Economics (Stream 1 — Economic Inequality; Stream 2 — Conflict and Economic Development) (UG) 2022 – 2023
- Tutor — ECOS3010 Monetary Economics (UG) 2022
- Tutor — ECON5007 The Economics of Financial Markets (UG) 2022
Banking Academy, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Lecturer — International Economics (UG) 2010 – 2020
Conference Presentations
- Australia Conference of Economists, Adelaide (July 2024).
- Australia Gender Economics Workshop, Perth (Feb 2023).
- Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, Melbourne (May 2023).
- CEPAR International Conference, Sydney (July 2023).
- Econometric Society Australasian Meeting, Sydney (August 2023).
- Australia Ph.D. Conference, Melbourne (November 2023).
- Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, Virtual (June 2022).
- Singapore Economics Review Conference, Singapore (Aug 2022).
- 30th Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research, CEPAR, Sydney (Nov 2022).
- Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, Virtual (July 2021).
- 29th Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research, Sydney (Nov 2021).
- "Labor in East Asia", Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia (July 2018).
- R. Anton Braun & Fumio Hayashi Workshop, Keio University, Japan (June 2018).
- "Making Trade Inclusive: How to Manage Trade Adjustment", ADBI, WTO and IADB, Tokyo, Japan (November 2017).
- Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, San Diego, USA (July 2017).
Invited Seminars
- 2024
Gaps in Old-Age Provision and Other Protection Gaps
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- 2023
GRIPS – UT Macroeconomics and Policy Workshop
National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan
Skills & Languages
Technical
Languages
- English — Advanced
- Vietnamese — Native
- Japanese — Beginner