Kevin Vuong
Head, Municipal Partnershps in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kevin Vuong, MP, FRSA is a Canadian Member of Parliament. Elected at the age of 32, he is the youngest MP of Asian heritage sitting in the House of Commons. Kevin is dedicated to serving Canada – both in and out of uniform – for welcoming his parents and other refugees when countries were closing their borders to people fleeing the violence of the Vietnam War.
Prior to his election, he was co-founder and chief operating officer at Delphic Research Group, Canada's leading govtech firm. His entrepreneurship ventures also include building, growing, and investing in Canadian manufacturing and consumer packaged goods ventures. As a business leader focused on doing good, he has donated needed supplies to frontline agencies in Canada and also to the International Red Cross in the Global South.
Vuong also serves as a naval reserve officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, and presently is a member of the Strategic Advisory Team at His Majesty’s Canadian Ship York. In 2020, Vuong was appointed Canada’s NATO 2030 Young Leader by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
For his service and impact, Vuong has been named/appointed:
- A Medallist of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as HM The Queen’s Young Leader for Canada in 2017;
- Canada’s Top 30 Under 30 in 2016; and
- Canada’s Top Under 30 Pan-Asian Leader in 2014.
Vuong was previously a regular contributor on NEWSTALK 1010, and lecturer who taught at the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Western University. His prior research has examined artificial intelligence and bias, the future of work, with a special report on the future of healthcare skills, and what it means for Canada and the nation’s prosperity in the age of disruption.
Active in the community, Vuong is honoured to have had the privilege of serving as the first non-Indigenous President of the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto’s Board of Directors, and on the boards of the Vietnamese Association of Toronto and the Chinese Canadian National Council of Toronto. Most recently, he served on the board of the NATO Association of Canada as Vice-President, the Together We Stand Foundation in support of Canada’s military families, and the Council of Presidents at Western where he was also Chair of the Dan Management Alumni Advisory Council.