Dang Cam Tu is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV). She joined the DAV in 2000 and is currently serving as Acting Director General of the Center for Information and Documentation at the Academy. Tu earned her Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2011. She is a member of many major research and education projects at both institutional and national levels. She also participates and serves as Vietnam’s national coordinator in several think-tank networks in the Asia Pacific. Her main areas of research and publications include international relations in Southeast Asa and the Asia Pacific, ASEAN, and Vietnam’s foreign policy and relations with key partners in the region.