Henry Nguyen

Nguyễn Bảo Hoàng's father, Bang Nguyen, was a civil engineer who held a position in the South Vietnamese government.[1][2] After Saigon came under the Communist Party of Vietnam's control in 1975, he left for the United States, taking his wife, Kim Vu, their older son, Huy, daughters Thy and Linh and Henry, who was 22 months old at the time. Henry grew up in Fairfax County, VA.[1]

Nguyen won a scholarship to attend Phillips Exeter Academy but instead attended W.T. Woodson High before attending both Harvard and, later, Northwestern University.[1] After graduating from Harvard in 1995 he began working for Let's Go, a travel guide aimed at a student and backpacker readership.[1] The publisher decided to do a book on Southeast Asia, and as Henry spoke Vietnamese, the editor asked him if he would go, sending Nguyen to Vietnam for the first time since he left the country as an infant.[1] After returning, Nguyen attended Northwestern's medical school, but also enrolled in Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management in his third year, graduating in 2001 with both a medical degree and an MBA.[1]

Nguyễn Bảo Hoàng is married to Nguyễn Thanh Phượng, the executive director of Vietnam Capital Fund Management and daughter of former Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng.[6][5]

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In May 2018, Henry Nguyen along with Patrick Zhong, Ridwan Kamil, Noni Purnomo, where speakers on the "Innovators Who Are Changing Asia" panel[10] of the 2018 Milken Institute Global Conference.