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Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen was in Vietnam for the Securitization of Non-Performing Loans Project. She was with a World Bank/International Finance Corporation team of experts, where she provided the legal framework for the discussion of issues in the securitization process and securitization of non-performing loans with officials at the State Bank of Vietnam (SVB). The conference was only for invited officials, and the experts held daily private consultation meetings with the SVB research team.

“This is a very important project to restructure the Vietnamese economy,” Professor Nguyen said. Banks in Vietnam have made many bad loans, and the government has been looking into various models to address the issue. Securitization is potentially one of the models, Professor Nguyen said. She is shown in the photo presenting on the topic.

“It was a great honor for me to be invited to be a member of the expert team,” Professor Nguyen said. “From the United States, Professor Lois Lupica of the University of Maine School of Law and I are the only two professors/experts who were invited for this very important project.”

Professor Nguyen, who holds the Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law, is the director of the IU McKinney Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation. She is an internationally recognized legal scholar, known for her expertise in the intersections of intellectual property, secured transactions, bankruptcy, licensing, and taxation.