Syaru Shirley Lin, Chair of the Board, Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI)

Syaru Shirley Lin is founder and chair of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI), a nonpartisan international think tank advancing global resilience and innovative policy through comparative research in the Asia-Pacific. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She serves on the steering committee of the World Economic Forum’s Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience.

Her book Taiwan’s China Dilemma analyzes cross-Strait economic policy, with a focus on the semiconductor and petrochemical industries, and her commentaries appear frequently in both English and Chinese media. She sits on the boards of Langham Hospitality Investments, Goldman Sachs Asia Bank, TE Connectivity, MediaTek, and the Focused Ultrasound Foundation.

Earlier in her career, Lin was the youngest woman and one of the first Asian partners at Goldman Sachs, where she spearheaded investments in Asian technology start-ups. She led the firm’s early and highly successful investments in China, including the first institutional rounds in Alibaba and SMIC. She holds a Ph.D. and master’s from the University of Hong Kong and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard.