Director

Office Hours:
By appointment

Contact:
Center
Phone: 734.764.0352
Fax: 734.936.0996
Email: lylim@umich.edu

Ross School
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
701 Tappan St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234
Office Location: D7206

Biography:

Linda Lim is Professor of Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she is also Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, a member of the executive committees of the Center for International Business Education, the Center for Chinese Studies, and the Office of International Programs, a faculty associate of the Center for Japanese Studies and the Center for South Asian Studies, and a member of the U-M President's China Task Force.  She has also served as Associate Director of the University's International Institute, and is a board member of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows at the University.

 

A native of Singapore, 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.  Her recent publications include The Globalization Debate: Issues and Challenges (for the International Labor Organisation) and "State Power and Private Profit in Southeast Asia" (for Asia-Pacific Economic Literature).  Her current research is on the transformation of the developmental state in Singapore and Singapore in the global economy; on the post-MFA adjustment of the apparel export industry in Southeast Asia; and on the ASEAN countries' economic linkages with China and India.  She is the founder and editor of the refereed Journal of Asian Business.

 

Linda teaches MBA courses and executive education sessions on The World Economy and Business in Asia.  She has consulted and conducted executive workshops on Asian business, politics, economics and culture for multinational and Asian companies and associations including Coca-Cola, Texaco, Lockheed Martin, Corning, Textron, Holderbank, Indofood, Motorola, Thomson TV, Delphi Automotive, J.D. Powers, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, PacifiCorp, the Chief Executives’ Organization and CoreNet Global.  She has also done training and ambassador briefings for the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute, and the U.S. Trade Representative, has testified to the U.S. Congress' House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and has addressed the United Nations General Assembly Economic Committee.

 

Linda has also consulted for private think tanks, United Nations agencies and the OECD.  She is a Trustee Emeritus of The Asia Society, and was a director of publicly-listed Woodhead Industries, an industrial communications provider, from 1998-2006, up to and including its sale to Molex Inc. She is frequently quoted in the international business press, including recent citations in the Detroit News, Forbes, Asian Wall Street Journal, Bangkok Post, Straits Times and Business Times (Singapore), New Straits Times (Malaysia), Financial Express (India), Dinheiro Vivo (Brazil), Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg's Markets,and appearances on Lehrer News Hour (TV) and NPR’s Marketplace program.

Associate Director: Allen Hicken

Contact: Center Office Hours: 9-10am on Tuesdays

Center for Southeast Asian Studies
1080 S. University, Ste. 3603
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106
Phone: 734.764.0352
Fax: 734.936.0996
Email: ahicken@umich.edu

Department of Political Science
7642 Haven Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045
Phone: 734.615.9105

Biography:

Professor Hicken studies political institutions and political economy in developing countries. His primary focus has been on political parties and party systems in developing democracies and their role in policymaking. His regional specialty is Southeast Asia where he has worked in Thailand, the Philippines and Cambodia.