Dr. Hang Duong is a public policy scholar with over 18 years of experience working in the public sector in Vietnam before completing her PhD at The University of Western Australia (UWA). Her thesis, which focused on policy transfer and meritocracy in authoritarian regimes, received the Award of Honourable Mention on the Dean’s List at UWA. She is the author of the book Policy Transfer under Authoritarianism, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and contributed a chapter to The Public Productivity and Performance Handbook, published by Taylor & Francis. Additionally, she has published in esteemed research journals, including Policy & Politics, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Political Studies Review, Public Administration and Development, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, Journal of International Relations and Development, and International Journal of Public Policy. Hang is currently a senior lecturer in public policy. She is a researcher in public policy and public administration, and is working on the interdisciplinary MandEval project of UWA School of Social Sciences VaxPolLab. She is a qualitative researcher with experience in collecting and analyzing qualitative data. Her research focuses on policy transfer, public sector human resource management, public sector performance, public service motivation, and vaccination policy.