Oanh is a pioneer and an expert in social entrepreneurship development, child protection, and women’s rights. Currently, Oanh is the founder and CEO of the Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP) – a highly respected Vietnamese nonprofit organization credited with nurturing the country’s social enterprise ecosystem and building a new sector for social entrepreneurship in the country.

Oanh is actively involved in social enterprise movements including co-founding the Social Enterprise Asian Network and the Vietnam Social Entrepreneurs Club. She is also a member of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme and a Trustee of AirAsia Foundation.

Over the last decades, she held various positions in government agencies, international nongovernmental organizations, and UN agencies.

Since 2017, Oanh and her team have been developing and implementing a national program called En Xanh (Blue Swallows) to build, accelerate, and recognize business initiatives for social change; its objectives are to promote an entrepreneurial spirit and accelerate innovative and scalable business solutions that will support progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

To date, the program has helped over 50 social enterprise working to tackle societal and environment challenges, which has brought positive change to the lives of more than 200,000 people.