Senior Lecturer in International Business and Entrepreneurship

Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, Cambridge campus
Room: 3rd floor

UK: 0845 196 7917
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 7917
Email: lin.yan@anglia.ac.uk

In 2000, with the help of a Shell Centenary Scholarship, Lin took a one-year leave from work and came to study at Cambridge. It was meant to last for nine months, but eleven years on, Lin is still here. Cambridge played a significant role in changing Lin's career path from consultancy to academia.

Lin's academic interest is on International Entrepreneurship. She was trained in International Business and is always fascinated by the diversity of the world we live in. Lin is currently working on two research projects - one is a comparative study on how mobile banking alleviates poverty among women entrepreneurs in China, Peru and Tanzania, and the second on small businesses in the renewable energy sector in the UK, France and Germany. Lin has published in academic journals and conference proceedings, served as a reviewer for a few funding bodies, journals and books, and have organized international workshops and conferences.

Before coming to LAIBS, Lin was Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Greenwich in London, where she was a founding member of STER (Sustainability, Technology and Entrepreneurship Research) and the Centre for Enterprise and Innovation. Lin's first academic post was at University of Wales where she was Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and an associate member of the Confucius Institute.

Lin did her MPhil and PhD at the Judge Business School here at Cambridge and a Bachelor's Degree at Tianjin University in China. Before her venture in the UK, Lin worked as a consultant, then senior consultant, for four years in a large but entrepreneurial Chinese company, helping multinational companies in China understand the local environment and Chinese companies to expand abroad.