Dr. Le Viet Phu is a lecturer at the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management, Fulbright University Vietnam. His main areas of research include various environmental issues and policies in Vietnam, including energy economics, clean air policies, agricultural systems, and climate change. He is also a lecturer of sustainable development and environmental policies, and quantitative methods in economics at the Fulbright School.

Dr. Phu was the principal researcher of the USAID-funded Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (LMPPI) which investigated the water-food-energy nexus to facilitate public policy dialogs on environmentally sustainable economic development, raising agricultural productivity, and improving household livelihoods in the five countries of the Lower Mekong Basin, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam during 2014-2018. Phu is now leading the five-year Natural Capital Management Project with a mission to protect the Mekong River Delta from unsustainable use of natural resources for economic development, rising threats of climate change in the region, upstream hydropower development and ineffective local water governance.

Publications

Phase Change: Reducing Energy Intensity and Coal Use in Vietnam, with David Dapice and Le Thai Ha, 2022. Handbook of Energy and Environmental Security, Muhammad Asif (ed). ISBN: 9780128240847

Nonlinear Temperature Response of Electricity Load and Implications for Power Development Policies in Vietnam, 2021. Energy and Buildings.

Developments, Opportunities, and Challenges for Vietnam's Renewable Energy Sector. ISEAS Publication Series, 2020. Singapore.

Electricity Price and Residential Electricity Demand in Vietnam. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2020.

Energy Demand and Factor Substitution in Vietnam: Evidence from Two Recent Enterprise Surveys. Journal of Economic Structures, 2019: 8(35).

Reflection on Climate Policy: Science, Economics, and Extremes, with Anthony Fisher. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 8(2): 307-327, 2014.

Water Governance and Evaluation of Environmental Regulations in the Dong Nai River Basin. In collaboration with the University of Economics-Ho Chi Minh City for the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment of HCMC.

Electricity Pricing, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Development Policies in Vietnam. Vietnam Energy Summit 2020, The European Commission and the Government of Vietnam.

Development Opportunities and Challenges for the Energy Sector in the Mekong River Delta 2020. Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), Can Tho, Vietnam.

Pricing a Connection - The Market for Solar Power Projects in Vietnam 2019. Joint with University of Economics, Hochiminh City.