Скачать или смотреть EP-08 | 30 Years in Policy: Lessons from Primates to Afghanistan | Public Policy Group, NALSAR

In this episode, Saundarya D. Nair and Shritama Goswami speak with Vietnamese activist and policy specialist Hoang Phuong Thao, Executive Director of ActionAid Vietnam, about her decades-long career in public policy, with a sharp focus on gender justice and poverty alleviation. She talks about her headspinning journey from the pages of Russian literature to the jungles of Vietnam and Laos, where she counted primates, before a 30-year career in activism and policy.

Ms. Thao shares inspiring stories from her visits to Afghanistan and what it felt like to be one of the four women in an office with 300 men. Frequently referring to her country’s colonial past, she charts the involvement of women in public policy, escaping the burdens of antiquity to a more inclusive landscape of the current times and the two sides to it. Lastly, she leaves us with some wisdom for aspiring public policy enthusiasts.

Bringing her life’s stories into this episode’s conversation, this is the most personal one yet.

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