Prof. Linda Lim

Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business

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 and the Office of International Programs, and a faculty associate of the Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies and the Center for South Asian Studies. 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 and business in Asia. Her recent publications include The Globalization Debate: Issues and Challenges (for the International Labor Organization) and “State Power and Private Profit in Southeast Asia” (for Asia-Pacific Economic Literature). Her current research is on Singapore’s changing role 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.

Bradley C. Lalonde

CEO and Co-Founder
Vietnam Partners LLC.

Topic: “ Vietnam- A compelling growth story”

Bradley Lalonde has been Chief Investment Officer and General Director of the Investment Manager (BVIM) since the company was established in January 2006 and has over 25 years in executive positions at Citibank in a variety of emerging market countries, including five years in Vietnam as Citibank’s CEO from 1994-1999.  During this time Mr. Lalonde headed Citibank’s corporate banking business, for which he accomplished a number of major transactions involving leading State Owned Enterprises.

Mr. Lalonde is a co-founder of, and Partner, in Vietnam Partners, the U.S. investment firm that is the joint venture partner with Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) in the Investment Manager. Mr. Lalonde sits on the board of directors of the Investment Manager.  Mr. Lalonde was also co-founder of the American Chamber of Commerce, where he served as its Chairman during the critical negotiations forming the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement.

Mr. Lalonde holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University (1977) and an A.B. degree from the University of Michigan (1975).

Ms. Kate Linebaugh

Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
U-M Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow 2007-08

Topic: "The old guard and China in Southeast Asian
economies today"

Kate Linebaugh is a U-M Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow 2007-2008. She is a journalist most recently with The Wall Street Journal.

After graduating in 1993 with a BA in History from the University of Michigan (where she also studied Indonesian language), she moved to Surabaya, East Java for a year-long Princeton-in-Asia internship at a non-governmental organization. From there she moved to Jakarta, where she worked as a legal assistant for a year before starting a career in journalism. In 1997, she joined Dow Jones Newswires and spent the next three years reporting on the fall of Suharto, the collapse of Indonesia’s economy, and the independence of East Timor. In 2000, she moved to Hong Kong with Bloomberg to cover investment banking and capital markets. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York, she reported on developments from Pakistan for four months, and Kabul, Afghanistan for one month.

She joined The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong in 2004 as the regional investment banking and deals reporter. With the Journal, she covered Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, the rise of China in global capital markets, and the explosion of capital available to the region’s economies.