Yue Lin

Yue Lin is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis on Political Economy. 

In the dissertation, Yue studies an extreme version of economic de-globalization: the rising trend of advanced democracies leveraging national security to restrict multinational enterprises from both emerging and established markets. She documents the political origins of this growing trend in U.S. Congress, and the socio-political strategies multinational corporations adopt to mitigate geopolitical risks. Her dissertation received the 2025 Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal award from the Academy of International Business. Her other projects center around political risk, industrial policy, and corporate non-market strategy (e.g., information, and organizational nationalism).

Prior to doctoral studies, Yue gained experience at two D.C.-based think tanks: American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She also served as a Research Assistant for the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, focusing on overseas development finance institutions. Yue is a proud alumna of Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and Hong Kong Baptist University.