Dr. ir. Ying Zhang

• Chair 

  • ​Singularity Academy,

  • ​ New Silk Road Institute,

  • Identitat Global Forum,

• Board Member, Veurs Salus Group, Swiss-Asian Chamber of Commerce

• Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

  • ​tenured associate professor on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Chinese Economy and Business

  • an Associate Dean at this school, responsible for Chinese Relations and Business Development

  • the founder and head of Erasmus China Business Center.

• Harvard University

  • ​Visiting professor and research fellow at Harvard University  

  • Harvard Business Review China Management Mentor.

• TEDx Speaker 

• Academic Advisory Board Member of Amsterdam School of International Business

• Senior Academic Advisor for the Steering Committee for Dutch National Framework of BBA International Business Program.

• a cross-disciplinary training/education background incl. economics, business, medicine, industrial engineering, and computer science. I am passionate about cross-disciplinary and multi-level research and education, studying the multi-level phenomena and puzzles across countries and sectors.

• Licenced Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor (acupuncture, herbal medicine)

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Awards:

• 2019 Thinkers50 Radar of 30 next-generation business thinkers,

• 2015 "best 40 business school professors under 40 years old" by Poets & Quants;

• a featured business school professor at NativeSociety (in the USA).

• Harvard Business Review China Management Mentor

• Winner of 2021 the Case Center Awards and Competitions (The case method community’s annual ‘Oscars’ in 2021.

• An Honorary Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University;

• a guest professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of Zurich.

 

• dedicated to Taichi, Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Eastern Philosophy. 

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 Married, based in Zurich, a mother of three lovely children.