Mimi Vu
Director of Development

Mimi Vu joined the VinaCapital Foundation as the Director of Development in February 2009 after two and a half years as the development officer for the East Meets West Foundation. Previously, she spent six years in New York City and Paris, where she worked in public relations, development, and advocacy for nonprofits such as the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the Robin Hood Foundation, and the Fund for Public Health in New York.

Mimi has undergraduate degrees in English Literature and French from the University of Michigan and an MPA in International Nonprofit Policy and Management from New York University. She was drawn to living and working in Vietnam because of a desire to further her career in international development, explore Vietnam and Asia, and connect with her Vietnamese roots. Mimi hopes to make a positive impact on the development of her family’s homeland through her work with VCF.

Lisa Rice Duek, RN, MBA, Dip PH & TropMed

After completing Nurse Training in the UK in 1996, Lisa commenced her career in Bath and London as an emergency room and operating theater nurse. She also worked in the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Royal Free Hospital while studying at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Lisa then spent four years in Paris as a nurse at the British and American Hospital while studying Public Health at the Marie Curie University of Paris.

In 2000 Lisa completed a mission for Médecins Sans Frontières in northern Georgia, where she headed a refugee vaccination campaign for Chechen refugees. In 2002 she commenced her Asian adventure as part of the start-up team for the Franco-Vietnamese Hospital (FV), HCMC’s first international hospital. Lisa worked as the hospital’s Manager of the In- and Out-Patient Departments for four years, where she oversaw a team of 50 nurses and paramedical staff and trained them to international standards.

Lisa completed her MBA in 2006 at RMIT University in Vietnam. Since then, she has worked in various clinical consulting posts, spreading her knowledge and passion for improving quality in healthcare in Vietnam.