Rank #1025
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao
Net worth $4.1B
Airlines · Vietnam
- Born
- Jun 07, 1970
- Age
- 56
- Source
- Airlines
- Residence
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Citizenship
- Vietnam
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Vietnam's first self-made woman billionaire Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao took her budget airline, VietJet Air, public in 2017.
- She launched the airline in 2011 and made a big splash early on with ads featuring bikini-clad flight attendants.
- Nguyen got the idea to launch a low-cost airline while she was a trader, when she predicted that demand for air travel in Vietnam would increase.
- She also has investments in HD Bank, technology, green energy and real estate, including hotels and beach resorts.
- After studying economics and finance in Soviet Russia in the 1980s, Nguyen got her start trading commodities in Eastern Europe and Asia.
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