Dominic Scriven is the founder and current chairman of Dragon Capital, the largest private investor in Vietnam.

Career

Scriven graduated with a combined honours degree in

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and

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from the

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. During his early career he worked in finance positions in the

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with Vickers, da Costa and in

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with

Sun Hung Kai Properties Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SHKP; ) is a listed corporation and the largest property developer in Hong Kong as of 2019. The company is controlled by the Kwok family trust, largely the Kwok brothers. The Kwok family trust was set up by Kw ...

. In the early 1990s he visited Vietnam and noticed the economic opportunities there. He then spent 2 years studying at Hanoi General University learning

Vietnamese Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia ** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam. * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overse ...

. He was then asked by

Peregrine Investments Holdings Peregrine (including Peregrine Investments Holdings Limited and Peregrine Infrastructure Investments Limited) was an investment company based in Hong Kong. It was liquidated following the downturn of the Indonesian economy during the Asian financi ...

founder Philip Tose to help set up its Vietnam offices. In 1994 he co-founded Dragon Capital. In 2006 he was awarded the

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and in 2014, he was awarded the

Labor Order The Labor Order ( vi, Huân chương lao động) is an award conferred or posthumously conferred by the Government of Vietnam on individuals and conferred on collectives that have recorded outstanding achievements in labor, creativity or natio ...

award, third class, by the Vietnamese president

Trương Tấn Sang Trương Tấn Sang (born 21 January 1949) is a Vietnamese politician, who served as the seventh President of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016. He was one of Vietnam's top leaders, alongside prime minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng and Party general secret ...

. Scriven was a director on the board of the

Asia Commercial Bank Asia Commercial Bank, often abbreviated to ACB, is the largest private bank in Vietnam by assets, headquartered at 442 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, Ward 5, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. It was registered on 19 May 1993 and began operations in June 19 ...

. Despite calling Vietnam "not communist", he has been an advisor to the

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and the national pension program.

Personal life

Scriven collects Vietnamese

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art and established a wildlife conservation organisation. Scriven has no children and resides in a villa in Ho Chi Minh City's

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. He also owns an eco-resort at

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. He is fluent in Vietnamese and in 2016 and 2019, Scriven stated that he was in the process of obtaining the Vietnamese nationality.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scriven, Dominic Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1963 births British investors Living people Alumni of the University of Exeter