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Curriculum Vitae

1. General Information

• Name: Thanouxay VOLAVONG
• Address: Chomphet tai Village, Sisattanak District, Vientiane Capital.
• Office address: Dongdok Campus, PO box 7322. The Faculty of Economics and Business Management (FEB), National University of Laos.
• E-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Phone: +856-20-77995568

2. Education:

• 2014, Vientiane College, Vientiane, Lao PDR Diploma of General English
• 2012 attained a Master’s Degree in international Economics certificate with Honor (4.00), at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management, National University of Laos, Vientiane Capital, Laos.
• 2006 Lao-Japan Centre, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Certificate of Japanese Language level 3 (intermediate level)
• 2005, attained a Bachelor’s in General Economics, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management, National University of Laos, Vientiane Capital, Laos.
• 2003 Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Vientiane, Lao PDR. Diploma of English

3. Teaching Courses:

• Statistics for Commerce and Investment (Bachelor’s program)
• Principle of Economics (Bachelor’s program)
• Microeconomics (Bachelor’s program)
• Macroeconomics (Bachelor’s program)
• Econometric (Bachelor’s program)
• E-commerce (Master’s program)
• Research Methodology (Master’s program)

4. Selected Publications:

• The Linking between trade and poverty reduction. Case study in Lao PDR
• Factors Affecting Export and Import Trade Partners (Mekong Institute Research Working Paper Series 2012, No.5/2012)
• Do social protection programs help the poor during trade liberalization? Evidence from Laos (MERN, 2013), Co-research.
• Analyze the factors determining the room’s price by Hedonic pricing model
  Case study: Vientiane Capital.
• Study on The Survival Rate of Enterprises that Managed by Vientiane Capital
• Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E8nMgusAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

5. International Conferences:

• Introduction to trade Policy and the WTO (Organized by National Economics Research Institute and the APEC Economic Integration Program) 24 – 28 October
• Mekong Economic Research Network the 1st Networking Workshop (Organized by Mekong Economic Research Network (MERN)). March 3-9, 2013
• Mekong Economic Research Network the 1st Networking Workshop (Organized by Mekong Economic Research Network (MERN)). August 18-24, 2013
• E-commerce and trade: opportunity and challenges
• Economic Development and Trade facility
• ESCAP-UNEP-UNCTAD Course on Climate-smart Trade and Investment for Sustainable Development
• 10 th Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum,
• Conference on Technology Transfer and the Progress of Modern IP.
• Lao Quality for Trade Platform
• Big Data Analysis
• ARTNeT Workshop on Automating Text Analysis using R: Applications to Trade Agreements and Non-Tariff Measure
• International Trade Global Value Chains and Development

6. Trainings and Workshops:

• Training Coursed of CGE Modeling (Organized by Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Japan and FEBM) 27-29 November
• Training Program on Research Methodology (Organized by Mekong Institute, Khon Kaen, Thailand) 2-29 February
• Institution for Knowledge Intensive Development (IKID) Project in Estonia, Europe. 02/2017-02/2018
• International Youth Leaders (Organized by China Guangxi International Youth Exchange Institute) 04/32014 to 26/4/2015
• Digitalizing Certificates of Origin - Trends and Challenges for Advancing Paperless Trade
• Digital Mobile Apps facilitating cross border paperless trade, UNESCAP

7. Language and Computing Skills:

• Lao: Mother tongue
• English: Good
• Japanese: Fair
• Microsoft offices, SPSS Program, STATA Program, E-Views and Internet based services.