Dao Nguyen is a postdoctoral research and development fellow at Purdue University Global. She has extensive experience in higher education and public administration as a researcher, practitioner, educator, manager, policy-maker, and evaluator. Her research interests revolve around issues related to gender, race, and social stratification, with an intersectional focus on policy, leadership, and practice. Her scholarly works were published in peer-reviewed journals - International Journal of Public Administration, American Journal of Qualitative Research, Journal of Educational Administration, International Higher Education, Advanced Research in Gender. She worked in various capacities for the University of Pittsburgh Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE), Comparative International Education Society (CIES), Carnegie Project on Education Doctorate (CPED), An Giang University, Department of Foreign Affairs (An Giang, Vietnam), and IRED Institute of Education.
She holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Management from the University of Pittsburgh with minors in Gender-Sexuality-Women's Studies, Research Methodology, and Asian and Global Studies. She also has a master's degree in Higher Education Administration from Boston College and a bachelor’s degree in Teacher Education from Can Tho University.