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Mai is the Executive Assistant to Professor Katherine Daniell, Interim Director of the School of Cybernetics.
In her work she manages the Director’s Calendar and connects to people of multiple disciplines. Mai manages the Visiting and Honorary Appointments (VaHa’s) at the School, ensuring people of different backgrounds can collaborate efficiently. Mai’s work supports the School to achieve its overall mission to make better futures by using cybernetics as a tool.
Mai’s background is in public administration and international economic relations. She has a master’s degree from the Crawford School and a master’s from Foreign Trade University. She has attended about 70 courses in a variety of skills in a number of countries.
Mai has more than eight years of experience as an EA in Australia, including almost 2 years as EA to Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell and over four years as Bureau Chief and EA to Ambassadors of Israel to Australia. In the later position, Mai coordinated numerous high-level meetings from the Deputy Prime Minister downwards, travelling, visits and events in coordination with AFP. She also worked for the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam for more than 11 years as a policy advisor and a group leader and engaged in bilateral and multilateral negotiations in different countries on behalf of the Vietnamese government. Additionally, Mai worked as a project coordinator for an Italian project and a project consultant for a European project in Vietnam. She was Head of a trades news group of the Vietnamese National Trade Information Centre when she graduated from Ha Noi Foreign Trade University in 2002.
When Mai is not spinning around the office space she pursues her passions in fashion, modelling, spending time with her family and community.
Areas of Expertise: Executive Organisation, Logistics, International Relations, Administration.