Quyen Nguyen is Co-Head of the Centre for Smart Manufacturing and Global Value Chains at C4IR Ho Chi Minh City, the World Economic Forum's affiliate centre in Vietnam, where she works with government and industry to move Vietnam's manufacturing base up the value chain. She is also a Director at CEL, where she has spent nearly 20 years inside the factories and supply chains of emerging markets, advising both manufacturers and the global buyers who source from them. Quyen is the Co-founder of Vietnam Supply Chain, a community that has convened over 10,000 professionals across Vietnam and ASEAN over the past 15 years. Her contributions to the industry were recognized when she was named Most Inspiring Supply Chain Professional of the Year by Supply Chain Asia.