Viet Dinh

Principal, Palanquin Companies

Viet D. Dinh is Principal of the Palanquin Companies, including Palanquin Advisors LLC and Palanquin Capital LLC. He was a senior executive of Fox Corporation, serving as Chief Legal and Policy officer from September 2018 to December 2023 and Special Advisor from January 2024 to December 2025. Before that, Viet was a partner at two leading law firms, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Bancroft PLLC, the latter of which he founded. Viet was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center for 20 years, and was appointed U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy from 2001 to 2003. He currently serves on the Boards of Wonder, Inc., Strategic Education, Inc., and Kingspan Group Plc; and previously of Twenty-First Century Fox, the News Corporation, Revlon Inc., and LPL Financial Holdings, among other public companies. Viet graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

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