About

Yina is a Program Manager at the Lien Centre for Social Innovation. She works with the Centre’s consulting projects and research efforts studying the current landscape of social entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia.

Her previous jobs took her to various countries in Asia, including South Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore. Most recently, she worked for a Korean government agency connecting Korean tech startups to Southeast Asian markets. Before her stint in Korea, she served as a public sector consultant for the Malaysian government, assisting socioeconomic policy development utilising Blue Ocean Strategy. She was previously project officer for ICT for Development (ICT4D) research program at NTU’s Singapore Internet Research Centre, as well as intern at UNICEF Vietnam’s Provincial Child Friendly Program.

She graduated from Duke University with a bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and obtained her master’s in Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She is passionate about women’s empowerment, education, and volunteering.