Ngụy Thị Khanh

Ngụy Thị Khanh (born 1976) is an executive director and founder of the Green Innovation and Development Centre (GreenID) in Vietnam. Khanh is also the working coordinator for the Vietnam Rivers Network (VRN). In 2018, Khanh won the Goldman Environmental Prize. It was for her work with Vietnamese governmental agencies developing long-term sustainable energy ways. Her ways reduced dependence on coal power.
Early life and career.
Khanh was born in 1976 in Bắc Am, a village in Bắc Giang Province. She completed her graduation from the Institute of International Relations (Học viện Quan hệ Quốc tế) in Hanoi. Since 2008, she has been the coordinator of the working efforts of the Vietnam Rivers Network (VRN). She initially worked on limiting water pollution from mining activities. She broadened the importance to include other pollution sources and ways to energy policy. She was an official observer for Vietnam at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.