A Canadian dedicated to service.

Canada welcomed Kevin Vuong’s parents as refugees when other countries were closing their borders to people in need.

His parents raised him to understand his duty to give back to the country that gave their family everything, to know his history, and to never forget how fragile democracy can be in addition to our collective and individual responsibility to protect it.

This is why service to country has been a guiding principle throughout his life and it is the reason he put his civilian career on hold to join the Canadian Armed Forces in 2015, as he knew of no better way to honour that incredible act of compassion by Canadians to welcome his parents than to serve.

Banker by day, volunteering by night

A banker by profession, Kevin started his career at TD Securities in the Global Leadership Rotational Program. He spent his day on Bay Street and his evenings volunteering with United Way community agencies with a focus on disadvantaged communities. There, he often worked with youth, showing them, as someone who was in their shoes not too long ago, what was possible with grit and hard work.

Always advocating for Canada

In 2020, Kevin was appointed Canada’s NATO 2030 Young Leader by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, at the recommendation and nomination of the Warsaw Security Forum who had named him a New Security Leader in 2019.

In that role, he joined 13 other leaders from across NATO to engage with military, civil society, and national leaders, deliberate on the future of the Alliance, and provide recommendations to the Secretary General for NATO 2030.

Serving in public office

In 2021, Kevin was elected at the age of 32, making him the youngest Member of Parliament of Asian heritage in Canada's 44th Parliament and the only MP of Vietnamese heritage.

Prior to his election, he was co-founder and chief operating officer at Delphic Research Group, a policy intelligence and monitoring firm and one of Canada's leading govtech companies. His entrepreneurship ventures also include building, growing, and investing in Canadian manufacturing and consumer packaged goods ventures. As a business leader focused on doing good, he has donated needed supplies from his businesses to frontline agencies in Canada and also to the International Red Cross in the Global South.

Kevin also serves as a naval reserve officer in the Royal Canadian Navy at the rank of Lieutenant(Navy), and presently is a member of the Strategic Advisory Team at His Majesty’s Canadian Ship York.

For his service and impact, Vuong has been named/appointed:
- A Medallist of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as HM The Queen’s Young Leader for Canada in 2017;
- Canada’s Top 30 Under 30 in 2016; and
- Canada’s Top Under 30 Pan-Asian Leader in 2014.

Kevin was previously a lecturer at the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Western University. His prior research has examined artificial intelligence and bias, the future of work, with a special report on the future of healthcare skills, and what it means for Canada and the nation’s prosperity in the age of disruption.

Active in the community, Kevin served as the first non-Indigenous President of the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto’s Board of Directors, one of Canada's original friendship centres and the oldest Indigenous agency in Toronto. He was also previously on the boards of the Vietnamese Association of Toronto and the Chinese Canadian National Council of Toronto. Most recently, he served on the board of the NATO Association of Canada as Vice-President, the Together We Stand Foundation in support of Canada’s military families, and the Council of Presidents at Western University where he was also Chair of the Dan Management Alumni Advisory Council.