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Dola Pham
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Dola Pham · Phạm Văn Đô La

Lawyer · Data Privacy & Protection Practice Lead

Member of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association since 2014, with nearly 20 years of legal practice. Twelve of those years were spent inside VNG Corporation heading legal for Zalo Group, where he led personal data protection for the entire group.

≈20 yrs
Legal practice since 2008
12 yrs
VNG Corporation · Head of Legal, Zalo Group
70M+
Platform users advised on data matters
2014
Admitted to the HCMC Bar Association

About

Dola Pham is a licensed lawyer whose entire career has run through organisations that process personal data at national scale. At VNG Corporation, Vietnam's first technology unicorn, he headed legal for Zalo Group: the messaging, payment and digital-entertainment ecosystem serving more than 70 million users. His portfolio covered the full span of digital products: platforms, social networks, online games, e-commerce, advertising, cloud and data centers, payments and e-wallets, fintech, IoT, copyright and telecommunications.

Four responsibilities defined that tenure: leading personal data protection for the whole VNG Group; leading litigation and dispute resolution; corporate restructuring across the Zalo ecosystem; and drafting internal policy while commenting on related legislative drafts, which gives him a working read of the regulator's intent behind the text. He currently serves as Associate Director of Legal & Compliance at one of Vietnam's leading listed conglomerates (consumer–retail), coordinating compliance across multiple legal entities and tens of millions of loyalty customers.

PDPL 91/2025/QH15 Decree 13/2023 · DPIA dossiers Cross-border data transfer Law on Data 60/2024 Litigation & disputes Regulator liaison (A05)

Experience

CURRENT

Associate Director, Legal & Compliance

Leading listed Vietnamese conglomerate (consumer – retail)

Group-level legal and compliance across multiple subsidiaries; data governance for tens of millions of loyalty customers.

2012 — ONWARD · 12 YEARS

Legal Manager · Head of Legal, Zalo Group

VNG Corporation
  • Led personal data protection matters for the entire VNG Group.
  • Legal charge of digital products end-to-end: platforms, social networks, online games, e-commerce, ads, cloud/DC, payments and e-wallets, fintech, IoT, copyright, telecommunications.
  • Led litigation and dispute resolution for VNG Group; corporate restructuring of the Zalo ecosystem enterprises.
  • Developed internal policies and commented on related legislative drafts.
2008 — 2012

Legal Specialist → Legal Manager · Assistant to Chairman & CEO

Thanh Cong III Cement JSC, Hai Duong · Letco, Hanoi University of Industry

Corporate legal foundations in manufacturing and enterprise governance.

Education & credentials

2022 — 2024

Master of Economic Law

University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH)

2014

Lawyer — HCMC Bar Association

Licensed practitioner, member of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association

2008

Certificate of Law Practice

Judicial Academy, Hanoi — professional lawyer training

2003 — 2007

Bachelor of Laws

Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

Work with Dola

Dola leads our Technology & Data Privacy Legal Advisory practice: PDPL gap reviews, impact-assessment dossiers, policies and regulator liaison.

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