Marco Förster

Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Marco Förster manages the ASEAN Advisory unit of Dezan Shira & Associates (DSA).

Within DSA’s international business advisory department and with team members across the firm’s 6 ASEAN offices, he mainly consults corporate investors on operational compliance in Southeast Asia.

Before his relocation to DSA Ho Chi Minh City, he has been with the firm’s Beijing and Shenzhen offices for several years, as well as held the position of SME Forum Chair of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. Prior to DSA, he gained business consulting experience at other advisory firms in Munich, Guangzhou, and Hanoi.

He studied business at Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, and Columbia Business School (Executive Education). Marco speaks fluent German, English, Mandarin, and Vietnamese.