Viet D. Dinh (Vietnamese: Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt; born February 22, 1968) is a Vietnamese-born American legal scholar[1] who is on the board of Strategic Education.

Previously, Dinh was a partner at two leading law firms, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Bancroft PLLC, the latter of which he founded.

[4] Born in Saigon,[5] in former South Vietnam, he was a major contributor to the Patriot Act and is a former member of the Board of Directors of News Corporation.

Dinh joined the restarted debate team at Fullerton Union High School under coaches Gary Reed and Jacqueline Reedy as a senior, who encouraged him to apply to Harvard University.

[14] Dinh's representative publications include "Defending Liberty: Terrorism and Human Rights" in the Helsinki Monitor, "Codetermination and Corporate Governance in a Multinational Business Enterprise" in the Journal of Corporation Law, and "Financial Sector Reform and Economic Development in Vietnam" in Law and Policy in International Business.

[15] In September 2006 Dinh received publicity for representing Tom Perkins, a former Hewlett-Packard director involved in the company's pretexting scandal.

Further, in 1992, a decade before he met Lachlan, Dinh wrote of his sister, held in a Hong Kong refugee camp, in the New York Times, which led to NBC TV coverage and then to a series of articles in the South China Morning Post.

After 9/11, Dinh conducted a comprehensive review of DOJ priorities, policies, and practices, and played a key role in developing the USA PATRIOT Act and revising the Attorney General's Guidelines, which govern federal law enforcement activities and national security investigations.

In September 2018, Dinh was appointed as Chief Legal and Policy Officer of Fox Corporation and would report directly to CEO Lachlan Murdoch.

He escaped in 1978, and remained a fugitive in Vietnam, when his mother, Nga Thu Nguyễn, and his older siblings got on a boat with 85 other people and set out.

They picked strawberries for menial wages, sending money back to Dinh's father and a sibling hiding out in Vietnam.

[29][citation needed] Dinh was honored by his high school alma mater when he was added to Fullerton's wall of fame.

He will share that wall with an ideological opposite, David Boies, former Vice President Al Gore's lawyer for the Florida recount.