Thao Griffiths
Head of Public Policy, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Meta Platforms Inc.
Thao Griffiths joined Meta in December 2021, as Public Policy Head for Vietnam. From May 2023, she is additionally in charge of Public Policy in Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
Thao became a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons, a treaty- based intergovernmental organization with Headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands from 2022. She has also served as an inaugural member of the Advisory Committee of the Australian Government in Vietnam since March 2016. She has 19 years’ experience in management, public health, development, climate change, security policy, and IT related business.
Prior to Meta, Thao worked at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry as Policy Advisor to the Chairman, where she played a key role bridging VCCI with both the private sector and key international partners. Government. In 2016, she spent a year in Switzerland at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
Thao worked across many fields in her professional life, with a particular focus on U.S.-Vietnam relations, including reconciliation and healing after the war. She served for nine years as Country Director for Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation in her 16-year tenure with the organization both in its Hanoi and Washington offices.
Thao has been a GCSP Security Leadership Fellow (Switzerland), an Endeavour Fellow (Australia), a Fulbright scholar (US), and an inaugural Eisenhower Fellow (US) from Vietnam in 2013. She has a master’s degree in systems engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in international relations from the American University. Thao loves to row, cycle, race dragon boats and play table tennis competitively.
Statement of Interest
I have served as the co-chair of the Digital Economy and Technology Committee of AmCham Vietnam since 2022. Collaboration in digital economy has become a new key pillar in the bilateral relationship between the US and Vietnam since its upgrade during President Biden’s visit to Hanoi in September 2023.
Leading the regional portfolio in public policy for Meta Platform Inc. (covering Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) and based in Singapore, I wish to focus on three areas for AmCham Vietnam:
- Promoting the digital economy agenda in line with AmCham’s objective and Vietnam’s priorities
- Promoting better integration between AmCham Vietnam and AmCham Hanoi
- Promoting stronger collaboration between AmCham Vietnam and the American business community based in Singapore
I will bring to AmCham Vietnam Meta’s and my networks and resources to support the aforesaid vision.