Lieutenant Colonel Vinh Q. Nguyen, representing the U.S. Army, is a National Security Affairs Fellow for the academic year 2023-2024 at the Hoover Institution.
He is an Army Enterprise Marketing and Behavioral Economics Officer that initially commissioned into the Signal Corps. He served in various assignments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Indo-Pacific. He has also deployed to Iraq and served an operational tour in Saudi Arabia.
Most recently, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen commanded the 78th Signal Battalion at Camp Zama, Japan. He was responsible for delivering global Joint network connectivity, providing strategic and expeditionary cyber support, and managing the Army information technology services throughout mainland Japan, Okinawa, and Guam.
Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen earned a Bachelor of Science from the California State University, Sacramento, a Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Master of Professional Studies from Cornell University.
