Cyril Lin
Senior Research Adviser

Cyril Lin is Founder and Managing Director of IFG Development Initiatives (IFGDI), an economics and corporate advisory consultancy specialising in transition and emerging market economies. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at MIT, Harvard University and the University of Oxford. Until 2001, he was University Lecturer in Economics at Oxford University, Director of the Centre for Modern Chinese Studies and Fellow in Economics at St Antony's College. He is a member of the team of international economists formed by the China Economic Research and Advisory Programme (CERAP), a non-profit body undertaking economic policy research and advice for Chinese policymakers. In 2006 he initiated the establishment of the Cairncross Memorial Foundation, which aims to support international collaborative research between foreign and Chinese specialists concerning major Chinese public policy issues, including Economics, Energy and the Environment, Governance and the Law.