Phuong Dung Le

Dung Phuong Le is a Ph.D. Candidate in Climate Security and Food Systems in the joint Ph.D. program between the Wageningen University and Research (WUR), the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Her study uses both quantitative and qualitative approaches to explore the linkage between climate change, adaptation, and human security in the Mekong Delta. She also contributes to the work in Climate Security Inequality Nexus of the CGIAR Climate Security program and to the Climate Mobility work in Work Package 5 of the Asian Mega-Deltas Initiative.

Before doing her Ph.D., she was a Senior Research Associate working with the Impact Assessment team at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Asia office. She has more than 10 years of experience in implementing and leading several large-scale surveys and using quantitative methods to analyze data and provide insights in topics related to technology adoption, impact of genetic crop improvement, poverty, vulnerability assessment, and climate change adaptation.
Dung holds an MSc in Agricultural and Food Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany, and the Swedish University of Agriculture, Sweden.