Dr. Phan Le Ha, Founder of Engaging With Vietnam (engagingwithvietnam.org), holds an Honorary Professorship in the IOE – Culture, Communication & Media, University College London, UK. She was previously Senior Professor in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education at  Universiti Brunei Darussalam, tenured Full Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She has been serving as editor, associate editor and editorial board members for book series and journals published by internationally renowned publishers such as Multilingual Matters (UK), Routledge, Wiley, SAGE, and Cambridge University Press. Phan Le Ha has taught and published extensively on English language education, identity-language-culture-pedagogy, global/international/transnational higher education, international and development education, academic mobilities, and sociology of knowledge. Her research work has covered many contexts in Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Asia-Pacific and the Gulf regions.

Together with Liam C. Kelley, Phan Le Ha founded the Global Vietnam book series with Springer Nature, and the Global Vietnam journal with Amsterdam University Press. Phan Le Ha and Liam C. Kelley are the Founding Editors and Editors-in-Chief of the Global Vietnam book series and journal. Phan Le Ha has also published poems, short novels and stories in English and Vietnamese. She has collaborated with artists and musicians to write songs and create albums, which include “Người Nghệ Sỹ Đường Phố” (Street Musicians) with Bao Dat, “Nhìn Lại” (Looking Back) with Ngo Hong Quang, and “Poetry Jazz The Muse” (Nàng Thơ) with Nguyen Bao Long and Pham Ha Linh. She also wrote the lyrics for eight songs in the album entitled “Những Con Sông Ngón Tay,” a collaboration with Tran Duc Minh and Tran Thu Ha (Ha Tran).