Pham Minh Thai is Principal researcher of the Centre for Analysis and Forecasting (CAF) under the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). He obtained a MA in Development Economics (Vietnam-Netherlands Master in Development Economics Programme) in 2008 and a Ph.D. degree in Political Economics from Hanoi National University in 2018. His research focuses on the labor market and trade. He has extensive experiences on both qualitative surveys such as focus group discussion/in-depth interviews and quantitative research with international publications in Children & Society Journal, Children and Youth Services Review and large numbers of Vietnamese Journals.