Mai Thai

Mai Thai's work experience includes roles such as Director of Social Business Creation at HEC Montréal, where they organized a global competition and training platform focused on using market mechanisms to solve social challenges. They also held positions as an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at HEC Montréal. Additionally, Mai Thai served as an Editorial Board Member for Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives and the Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, where they later became the Editor in Chief. They were also an Editorial Board Member for the Journal for International Business and Entrepreneurship Development. In terms of research, Mai Thai worked as an Associate researcher at the Asia Research Centre, University of St. Gallen, and was an Advisory Board member for the Cluster for Research on the Informal Sector and Policy (CRISP). Finally, they served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Mai Thai's education history includes a Ph.D. in International Management from the University of St.Gallen (2004-2008), an M.B.A. in International Management and Entrepreneurship from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (2001-2003), and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Foreign Languages and Literatures, General from Hanoi University (1994-1998). Additionally, Mai Thai attended The Wharton School in 2011 for Faculty Development in International Business and Harvard Business School in 2012-2013 to study the Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership. Mai Thai also briefly attended Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg in 2003.