Nhat Vuong Founder of Water Inception
Nhat Vuong's parents were boat people and escaped from South Vietnam in 1980 with the hope of a better life.
They landed in Malaysia and Nhat was born in Kuala Lumpur in a refugee camp managed by the Red Cross back then.
The same year the ICRC flew the whole family to Switzerland, where they are still living today.
After graduating with a Master Degree in Economics from HEC Lausanne, he received a scholarship from the Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce to study and work in Tokyo.
In 2010, as he was working in the Web industry. Haiti got hit by an earthquake, which gave him the idea to create a crowdfunding platform to increase donations from Japanese people and submitted his project during a Social Business Plan competition from NEC and won the 1st price.
They landed in Malaysia and Nhat was born in Kuala Lumpur in a refugee camp managed by the Red Cross back then.
The same year the ICRC flew the whole family to Switzerland, where they are still living today.
After graduating with a Master Degree in Economics from HEC Lausanne, he received a scholarship from the Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce to study and work in Tokyo.
In 2010, as he was working in the Web industry. Haiti got hit by an earthquake, which gave him the idea to create a crowdfunding platform to increase donations from Japanese people and submitted his project during a Social Business Plan competition from NEC and won the 1st price.
2010
NEC : Social Innovation for Sustainable Society Award
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This is a preview of the i-kifu donation's website as it was presented back then.
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2011
2 Awards were received that year for i-kifu
Katerva Innovation Award received at the UN University in Tokyo
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Tokyo Entrepreneur Award from John V. Roos former United States Ambassador to Japan under President Obama.
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2012
Nhat Vuong was invited to the World Economic Forum in Bangkok to present i-kifu during a panel discussion.
Meeting Professor Klaus Schwab
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Meeting Muhammad Yunus
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2013
TEDxTokyoChange
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Aspen Festival of Ideas
With Sir Richard Branson
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2016
Inspired by Bertrand Piccard and his Solar Impulse Foundation, Nhat decided to start tackling the world water crisis with water inception by bringing air to water generators that can be powered entirely by renewable energies in water stressed locations, while creating self-sustaining jobs for women.
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