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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

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Geopolitics and the electric vehicle revolution

Rising demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is changing the geopolitical landscape, as the world pivots away from fossil fuels towards the green minerals critical to the EV supply chain. Benjamin Jones, Viet Nguyen-Tien, R... Read more...

Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin Harper, Benjamin Jones and Viet Nguyen-Tien

20 October 2023

Blog

The supply chain for electric car batteries is changing the world's geopolitics

The rising demand for electric vehicles is changing the geopolitical landscape, as the world pivots away from fossil fuels towards the materials critical to the EV supply chain. As manufacturers and countries race to sec... Read more...

Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin Harper, Benjamin Jones and Viet Nguyen-Tien

27 June 2023

Chapter

Life cycle assessment of recycling systems

The market dynamics, and their impact on a future circular economy for lithium-ion batteries (LIB), are presented in this roadmap, with safety as an integral consideration throughout the life cycle. At the point of end-o... Read more...

Qiang Dai, Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin Harper, Oliver Heidrich, Viet Nguyen-Tien and Margaret Slattery

20 February 2023

Journal article

Breaking it down: a techno-economic assessment of the impact of battery pack design on disassembly costs

The electrification of the transport sector is a critical part of the net-zero transition. The mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) powered by lithium-ion batteries in the coming decade will inevitably lead to a larg... Read more...

Andrew P. Abbott, Jacqueline S. Edge, Robert J.R. Elliott, Emma Kendrick, Laura Lander, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Gregory J. Offer and Chris Tagnon

01 February 2023

Journal article

Climate-related natural disasters and voting behavior: evidence from environmental legislation in the US Senate

This study investigates whether US senators are more likely to vote in favor of environmentally friendly legislation following damages caused by climate-related natural disasters. We combine senatorial scores of roll cal... Read more...

Robert J.R. Elliott, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit

01 January 2023

Journal article - forthcoming

The electric vehicle revolution: critical material supply chains, trade and development

The emergence of a mass market for electric vehicles (EVs) offers development opportunities for countries that have abundant resources of cobalt, nickel, lithium, copper, aluminium and manganese. Not surprisingly, develo... Read more...

Robert J.R. Elliott, Benjamin Jones and Viet Nguyen-Tien

06 October 2022

Journal article

Natural disasters and voting behavior: evidence from environmental legislation in the US Senate

This paper investigates whether United States senators are more likely to vote in favour of environmentally friendly legislation following damages caused by climate related natural disasters. We combine senatorial scores... Read more...

Robert J.R. Elliott, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Eric Strobl and Thomas Tveit

13 September 2022

Journal article

Optimising the geospatial configuration of a future lithium-ion battery recycling industry in the transition to electric vehicles and a circular economy

Rapid electrification of the transport system will generate substantial volumes of Lithium-ion-battery (LiB) waste as batteries reach their end-of-life. Much attention focuses on the recycling processes, neglecting a bro... Read more...

Paul A. Anderson, Qiang Dai, Robert J.R. Elliott, Gavin Harper and Viet Nguyen-Tien

01 September 2022

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 J.R. 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

Journal article

Power outages and firm performance: A hydro-IV approach for a single electricity grid

We estimate the impact of power outages on firm performance using a hydro-instrumental variable strategy which integrates a river flow with a hydropower generation model and an electricity-grid-based distance interpolati... Read more...

Robert J.R. Elliott, Viet Nguyen-Tien and Eric Strobl

01 November 2021

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

Journal article

Financial viability of electric vehicle lithium-ion battery recycling

Economically viable electric vehicle lithium-ion battery recycling is increasingly needed; however routes to profitability are still unclear. We present a comprehensive, holistic techno-economic model as a framework to d... Read more...

Tom Cleaver, Laura Lander, Viet Nguyen-Tien and Mohammad A. Rajaeifar

25 June 2021