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Biography

Dr Viet Nguyen-Tien (Tien Viet Nguyen) is an applied economist interested in economic and political issues related to technology, the environment, and energy. He is currently based at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as a Research Economist. Before joining CEP, Viet was a Faraday Institution Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where he gained an MSc degree in International Economics (2015) and a PhD degree in Economics (2019).

Current areas of research include:

Innovation, productivity and sustainable growth
The politics of climate-related natural disasters
Low-carbon technology, resource security and circular economy
Climate, water resources, energy and development

Publications

Blog

Green growth and electric vehicles: the role of recycling

The UK needs an electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling industry. This could strengthen the British EV supply chain and support the future development of UK-based gigafactories (large-scale battery factories) and electri... Read more...

Robert Elliott, Gavin Harper, Laura Lander and Viet Nguyen-Tien

07 July 2022

External publications

Growing clean

This report, the 19th report for The Economy 2030 Inquiry, provides a hard-headed assessment of the opportunities presented to UK plc by the move to net zero, and considers how best these can be unlocked. It does this by... Read more...

Brendan Curran, Ralf Martin, Sabrina Muller, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Esin Serin, Arjun Shah, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven

23 May 2022

CEP reports

Are 'green' jobs good jobs?

The transition to net-zero will have far-reaching but unequal effects, as 'dirty' jobs disappear while new jobs aligned with or supportive of the net-zero objective - which we refer to as 'green' - are created. As govern... Read more...

Mirko Draca, Jiaqi Li, Sabrina Muller, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Capucine Riom and Anna Valero

28 October 2021