• International capital flows, exchange rates and monetary policy in the Asia Pacific region;
• Macroeconomic stabilization and financial sector reform in transitional economies of Asia, in particular, Vietnam;
• Role of the State and public policy making in Vietnam;
• International graduate education in Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

Career highlights

Dr. Leung consulted regularly with AusAID, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the UN Development Program, and the Vietnamese government on macroeconomic and economic development issues. Between 2004 and 2008, Dr Leung held the post of Education Director at the Crawford School of Public Policy.

Honours and Awards

• 2017 Awarded the “Friendship Medal” by the President of Vietnam for contribution to the economy and its people
  - 2011 Medal from Government of Vietnam for ‘Advancement of Vietnam’s Education Cause”

• 2007 Nominated by the ANU for National (Carrick) Award for excellence in graduate teaching

• 1999 Director of the Economics of Development program at NCDS/ANU in receipt of Australian Government Award for Service to International Students

PhD Supervision

Dr. Leung has supervised 14 PhD student theses to successful completion. Her current supervision load includes research on regional production network in Asia, remittances and financial flows in Vietnam, and social security policy in Vietnam.

Books

• 2015 Vietnam at Crossroads – the Need for Deeper Structural Reforms, Suiwah E. Leung (ed), Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore.
• 2010 Globalization and development in the Mekong Economies, Suiwah E. Leung, Ben Bingham and Matt Davies (ed), Edward Elgar publishers, UK.
• 1999 Vietnam and the East Asian Crisis Suiwah E. Leung (ed), Edward Elgar Ltd, UK, 236 pages.
• 1996 Vietnam Assessment—Creating a Sound Investment Climate, Suiwah E. Leung (ed) Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Curzon Press, Singapore, 122 pages.

Articles and Chapters in Books

• 2016/17/18 “Essay on Vietnam’s Economy”, Written and updated annually in Far East and Australasia, published by Europa/Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, UK.
• 2015 “The Vietnamese Economy – Seven Years after the Global Financial Crisis”, in Vietnam at the Crossroads, Suiwah E. Leung (ed), Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 32(1): 1-10.
• 2013 “Dynamics of Health Insurance Enrolment in Vietnam 2004-2006”, jointly with Trong-Ha Nguyen in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 18(4): 594-614.
• 2012 “Integration and Transition: Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR” in Sustaining Development and Growth in East Asia, Timo Henckel (ed) Routledge.
• 2012 “Remittances from migrants: experience of Vietnamese households:, jointly with Hai Anh La in Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• 2011-2116: Annual Essay on Vietnam’s Economy in The Far East and Australasia, Europa/Routledge publication.
• 2010 Chapter 4 on “Financial sector integration”, in Globalization and Development in the Mekong Economies, Leung, Bingham and Davies (ed), Edward Elgar.
• 2010 “Vietnam country case study”, with Ben Bingham, in Globalization and Development in the Mekong Economies, Leung, Bingham and Davies (ed), Edward Elgar.
• 2010 “Vietnam – an Economic Survey”, in Asian Pacific Economic Journal, Ron Duncan (ed), ANU, Canberra.
• 2009 “Banking and financial sector reforms in Vietnam”, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Special edition on Vietnam, April.
• 2006 “Integration and transition – Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao PDR” http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2006/mekong/index.htm
• 2003 “The role of graduate studies at the Australian National University in the development of innovative human resources in the Asia-Pacific region” in Strategy of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology, Japan International Science and Technology Exchange Centre (JISTEC), Tokyo, pp.19-38.
• 2002 Chapter on “Vietnam”, Changing Corporate Asia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Commonwealth of Australia, 167-186.
• 1999 “Crisis in Asia and Vietnam’s economic policy response” in Vietnam and the East Asian Crisis, Suiwah E. Leung (ed), Edward Elgar publishing co., UK„ pp 3 to 8.
• 1999 “Dollarisation and financial sector developments in Vietnam”, jointly with Ngo Huy Duc, in Vietnam and the East Asian Crisis, Suiwah E. Leung (ed), Edward Elgar publishing co., UK, pp 83 to 95.
• 1998 “Vietnam- Temporary Isolation” in Asia Pacific Profiles, Asia Economics Group, Canberra, pp 339-362.
• 1998 Chapter on “Vietnam” jointly with Le Dang Doanh in East Asia in Crisis, Mcleod and Garnaut (ed), Routledge, pp120-130.
• 1998 “State owned enterprise reform and competitive markets in Vietnam” in Reform of State-owned Enterprises in China: Autonomy, Incentive and Competition, Duncan and Huang (ed), Asia Pacific Press, Canberra, pp 87-104.
• 1997 “Financial deregulation and trade expansion” in East Asian Trade after the Uruquay Round, (ed) Robertson, Cambridge U.P. pp78-100.
• 1997 “Vietnam” in Asia Pacific Profiles, Asia Pacific Economics Group, Canberra, pp 306-328.
• 1996 “Introduction and Summary of Issues”, Chapter 1, in Vietnam Assessment – Creating a Sound Investment Climate, Suiwah E. Leung (ed), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Curzon Press, Singapore, pp. 1-6.
• 1996 “Vietnam” in Asia Pacific Profiles, Asia Pacific Economics Group, Canberra, pp. 319-338.
• 1996 “Vietnam at the crossroads” in the Asia-Pacific Magazine, RSPAS, ANU, June1996.
• 1996 “Vietnam in the 1980s—price reforms and stabilization”, jointly authored with Thanh Tri Vo, in Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, no. 197, June, pp. 187-208.
• 1995 “Exchange rate regimes and outward looking growth” in Sustaining Export Oriented Development in East Asia, (ed) Garnaut, Grilli, and Riedel, Cambridge U.P. pp.151-191.
• 1994 “An Australian PhD program in the economics of development – objectives, experiences, challenges” in PhD Education in Economics in Sub-Saharan Afric (ed) Fine, Lyakurwa and Drabek, African Economic Research Consortium, pp. 173-184.
• 1989 “Financial liberalization in Australia and New Zealand” in Authority and Academic Scribblers - the role of research in East Asian policy reform, (ed) Sylvia Ostry, International Centre for Economic Growth, pp. 121-150.
• 1983 “The residential demand for electricity in the ACT” (co-author W.A.Donnelly), in Search, 14, ⅞.