Dominic Scriven is the founder and current chairman of

Dragon Capital Dragon Capital Group is an integrated investment platform focused on Vietnam and other Southeast Asian emerging markets. History Founded in 1994, from an initial base of US$16m, Dragon Capital has offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi (SSC regis ...

, 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 one of the largest property developers in Hong Kong. The company's businesses include property sales, property rental, telecommunications (SmarTone, SUNeVision), hotel operatio ...

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

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. 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 financ ...

founder Philip Tose to help set up its Vietnam offices. In 1994 he co-founded

. In 2006 he was awarded the

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and in 2014, he was awarded the

Labor Order The Labor Order () 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 national construction. There are thre ...

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 eighth President of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016. He was one of Vietnam's top leaders, alongside prime minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng and Party general secr ...

. Scriven was a director on the board of the

Asia Commercial Bank Asia Commercial Bank, often abbreviated to ACB, is one of the largest private banks 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 ...

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

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and the national pension program. Scriven is a co-producer of the Vietnamese motion picture "Tunnel: Sun in the Dark."

Personal life

Scriven collects Vietnamese socialist realist 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, he 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