Lawrence S. Ting (丁善理) (1939–2004) was a Taiwanese decorated soldier and a pioneer businessman who became one of the largest foreign investors in Vietnam. As founder of Phu My Hung Corporation and Saigon South Urban Development Project, Lawrence Ting was instrumental in the southward expansion of Ho Chi Minh City. Today the neighborhood created by Lawrence Ting has become “a new sustainable, inclusive, knowledge-based urban center.” Lawrence Ting received the Ho Chi Minh City Medal of Honor in 1993, and a Certificate of Merit of the Government of Vietnam from the Prime Minister in 2001. In the 2013 Harvard Business Review article The Big Idea, Building Sustainable Cities, John Macomber of Harvard Business School chose Phu My Hung’s Saigon South Development Project started by Lawrence Ting as one of the leading sustainable urban development examples in the world. “Phu My Hung (also known as Saigon South) was promoted by industrialists who took a long-term ‘build and hold’ approach and had an infrastructure-first master plan…The Model of Phu My Hung, where thoughtful, long-term oriented, private-sector actors help the world create efficient water, power, and transit solutions, can-and must-be replicated.” Lawrence Ting received posthumously the Friendship Medal of Vietnam from Vietnam’s President Nguyen Minh Triet in December 2007. Lawrence S. Ting Memorial School in Ho Chi Minh City, a leading private non-profit junior high and senior high school is named after Lawrence Ting. In 2010, Lawrence S. Ting School became the first Microsoft Pathfinder School in Vietnam.