Patricia Roessler
Director, Education Initiatives

Patricia is Director of Education Initiatives at VinaCapital Foundation. She is leading the development of the MBA School and the IMIV for VCF. Patricia has a background in tertiary education management, and her seven years in Vietnam have principally involved establishing and managing several large education institutions in Vietnam, including the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Vietnam), the country’s first foreign-owned university, and the University of Danang-University of Queensland English Language Institute in Danang. Patricia has a Bachelor of Economics from The University of Queensland, and a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University.

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.