Phuong Thuy Dinh, Change-maker and CEO of Bio-Advances JSC Ðinh Thuý Phuong (English name: Jael Dinh), a distinguished Vietnamese national, is recognised for her exceptional performance in contributions in business, innovation, community development targeting sustainability values. Phuong has developed a strong passion for the zero-waste industry since she studied MA in Management at the University of Northampton, the UK. After graduating, she has become an international contributor in sustainability. In 2021, she was rewarded the Winner of the UK Alumni Awards for Business and Innovation for evaluating the reed-based carbon reduction in both water and air which then has been known as one of best outstanding green business models by the UNDP – The Vietnam Circular Economy. Two years later, also out of reeds, her ideation of producing biomass being a combination between agricultural waste and reeds won the third prize of Green Energy organised by The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH that noted her millstone of having been identified as one of 20 Vietnamese modern female pioneers who have shaped both the process of greening information and communications technology and the development of new green technology, known as Twin Transition. In the same year, she received the prestigious Global Excellence Assembly 2023 Women of Influence Award in recognition of her remarkable accomplishments in providing job opportunities and vocational courses to current and former drug addicts, helping them rebuild their lives. Regarding her devotion in Science, APEC Science Leadership Program 2022 had her team as the Winning Team and APEC Global Innovation and Science Technology listed her as the Semi-finalist Top 10 of the APEC Catalyst Pitching Catalyst 2023.

OMLAS Project
Phuong’s OMLAS project is to support the Vietnamese community of cerebral palsy children with thousands and thousands of members. In comparison to almost 100 million of the Vietnamese population, this amount seems to not get the mass public attention, therefore, with the aim of gaining awareness nationwide, Phuong together with her co-workers have joined hands in building a champion of winning the vast consciousness among the high school children to make a long-life journey with the palsy children community. Seeing from the lens of SDG3 – Good health and well-being and SDG 11 – Sustainable cities and communities, this project is believed to establish and nurture the good character of love, caring, and the willing to share the responsibility bridging the ordinary and the unlucky persons in the same society.

Experience at OMLAS Fellowship program
“I love the diversity and Omlas is exactly a diverse platform where I can share and interact with other Fellows from different countries. The breakout sessions were engaging and after each breakout session, I always learn something new from the various perspectives of other room members.”