Linda Yuen-Ching Lim

Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business
PhD. University of Michigan
M.A. Yale University
B.A. Universities of Cambridge

Biography:
Linda Yuen-Ching Lim, a native of Singapore, holds degrees in economics from the Universities of Cambridge (BA), Yale (MA) and Michigan (PhD). She has taught at Swarthmore College, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Michigan, where she is Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, and serves as Director of the Southeast Asia Business Program. Prof. Lim also founded and served as the first Director of the University's Center for International Business Education. She teaches MBA and executive education courses on international and Asian business at the University of Michigan Business School and the Wharton School.

Prof. Lim's research and expertise focus on the political economy of multinational and local business in Southeast Asia, including the changing international trade and investment environment, and the influence of domestic politics, economic policy and culture on business structure, strategy and operations. She also has related interests in business-government and business-labor relations. She has consulted for various U.S. companies, United Nations agencies, the World Bank, the OECD, and the American Enterprise Institute. She serves and has served on several professional committees, including the United Nations Committee for Development Planning, the Program for International Studies in Asia, and the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development. She also serves on the board of trustees of the Asia Society, the board of Woodhead Industries and the international advisory committee of CMS Energy; both firms are active in business in Asia.

Prof. Lim is the co-author of three books: Investing in Developing Countries: A Guide for Executives (1986), Trade, Employment and Industrialization in Singapore (1986), and Foreign Direct Investment and Industrialisation in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan (1991). She co-edited the two-volume book The Chinese in Southeast Asia (1983), and has published over 90 monographs, reports, book chapters and journal articles, including recent papers on intra-Asian trade and investment, the Asian economic crisis, and Overseas Chinese business. Her current research is on the limits of industrial policy and the "developmental state" in Singapore, and internet entrepreneurs as agents of social change in Southeast Asia. She is the founder and editor of the refereed academic journal, The Journal of Asian Business.

Prof. Lim addresses over thirty business, academic and public audiences a year. The corporate audiences she has addressed include Texaco, Textron, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, GM Delphi, Aeroquip, Corning, Holderbank, Indofoods, the Chief Executives' Organization, the Pacific Basin Economic Council, the Russell 20-20 and the Indonesian Marketing Association. Since 1997 she has given presentations on the Asian economic crisis to the United Nations, US Trade Representative, US State Department and US House Subcommittee on International Affairs, as well as various professional associations, universities and corporations. She is frequently quoted in the press, including 1997-2000 appearances in The New York Times, Forbes, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, Business Week, The Detroit News, The Detroit Free Press, The Straits Times (Singapore), The Far Eastern Economic Review and National Public Radio.

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Recent Publications:
"State Power and Private Profit: A Review Essay on Corruption in Southeast Asia", Asia-Pacific Economic Literature (November 2002); The Globalization Debate: Issues and Challenges, Geneva: International Labour Organisation, 2001; "Southeast Asian Chinese Business: Past Success, Recent Crisis and Future Evolution", Journal of Asian Business Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 2000) Special Issue on Ethnic Chinese Business in Southeast Asia; "Free Market Fancies: Hong Kong, Singapore and the Asian Financial Crisis", in T.J. Pempel, ed., The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. back to top

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