Professor Linda LIM is Professor of Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she served as Director of the 50-year-old Center for Southeast Asian Studies from 2005-09, and is a member of the executive committees of the Center for International Business Education, the Center for Chinese Studies and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She has also served as Associate Director of the International Institute, and is a board member of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows.

Linda obtained her degrees in economics from the universities of Cambridge (BA), Yale (MA) and Michigan (PhD). She has authored, co-authored or edited four books and published nearly 100 other monographs, journal articles and book chapters on trade, investment, industrial policy, labor, multinational and local business in Asia.

Linda has consulted for private think tanks, United Nations agencies and the OECD, and is a Trustee Emeritus of The Asia Society, a New York-based non-profit. She was a director of publicly-listed Woodhead Industries, an industrial communications provider, from 1998-2006, and is a member of the board of Multi-Fineline Electronix, a publicly-listed U.S. company supplying flexible printed circuits to the telecommunications industry.