Dr Kien Van Nguyen is an honorary senior lecturer at Fenner School of Environment and Society, the Australian National University (ANU), and a current adjunct associate professor at School of medicine and Dentistry, Griffith University, and a current senior research fellow at School of Rural Science, University of New England, Australia.

Kien has developed research and actionable projects in sustainable agriculture and food systems, and one health research using the multi and intradisciplinary approaches, in the Mekong region and Australia.

Kien graduated PhD in Sociology at the ANU in 2012 under the Australian Leadership Award (ALA), Master Degree in Environmental Management & Development at the ANU, and BSC in land management from Can Tho University. His thesis was on 'Social Capital, Livelihood Diversification, and Households' Resilience to Floods in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta. He completed his Postdoctoral research in sustainable agriculture at ANU FSES and indigenous entrepreneurship at ANU RSM.

Kien developed effective partnerships with external partners such as international researchers, donors, government agencies, NGOs, local governments, private sector, farmers and associations in Mekong Countries and Australia.

Kien has led 17 and co-led 18 international research and actionable projects in sustainable, organic agriculture and food security, rural development, water government, indigenous entrepreneurship, indigenous water governance in the Mekong Region and Australia.

He is currently a project director for the ACIAR/IDRC funded project entitled Food Loss in the Pangasius Catfish Value Chain of the Mekong River Basin (2023-2026).

Through the DFAT-funded project, Kien promotes organic food production, certification and trade between Australia and Vietnam under the Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Program round 1 and 2.

He developed Mekong Organics PTY LTD, a social enterprise to translate science into policy and practices to promote sustainable agriculture-nutrition-health in the Mekong Region and Australia.

Kien has successfully supervised PhD and Master students and marked several PhD thesis.