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Founder and Managing Partner of D’Andrea & Partners Legal Counsel, and Founder of DP Group.
Graduated in Law at the University of Teramo (Italy), he then subsequently obtained a Masters’ degree in Corporate Advisor at LUISS University in Rome and a Diploma in Chinese Studies at Nanjing Normal University and is a member of the Italian Bar Association.
Mr. D’Andrea arrived in China in 2005 and is fluent in Italian (mother tongue), English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. He mainly deals with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, assistance in ODI/FDI and intellectual property rights.
He is also acting as National Vice President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

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Dr. Nguyen Duc Thanh is a Vietnamese economist, the Founder and Chief Adviser of Viet Nam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR), a think tank he co-founded in 2008 and acted as its President till February 2020.

Under his leadership, VEPR has been widely recognized in Viet Nam as a strong advocate of the market economy reform, civil society empowerment and the implementation of the rule of law. Dr. Thanh was a member of the Economic Advisory Group to the Vietnamese Prime Minister during 2011-2016.

He is an Associate Professor at Vietnam National University (Ha Noi).
Dr. Thanh has been publishing extensively in academic journals and been involved actively in the country’s policy debates. He is the founder and chief editor of the influential Vietnam Annual Economic Reports, which has been annually published by VEPR since 2009.
Dr. Thanh has been a member of Eisenhower Fellowships since 2015. He holds membership of the East Asian Economic Association, and is an adviser to several policy research programs, business associations, commercial banks, and TV channels.

Nguyen Duc Thanh earned his PhD. in Development Economics from National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan in 2008