Bio

Thong M. Trinh is an Edwin J. O'Leary Fellow pursuing a doctorate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He also affiliates with the EdLab Asia Centre for Education Research and Development as a researcher. His research interest is Higher Education Policy with a focus on Finance. Thong has published in the areas of student willingness to pay, university budgeting, and related topics of higher education policy. He also served as a peer reviewer for some WOS and Scopus journals in the field of Education. Thong was a Strathclyde Business School Dean's Excellence Scholarship recipient and got his master degree in Business Analysis and Consulting from University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom in 2022. He also earned a bachelor degree with distinction in International Business at Banking Academy of Vietnam. In 2019, he was awarded the Certificate for the graduate valedictorian from the Hai Phong Mayor.