Ms. LIN Yanping is a Professor and PhD supervisor at the East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL). She holds the post of the Vice President of ECUPL, as well as Director of Institute of BRICS Legal Studies, Director of Institute for Belt and Road Initiative and Legal Diplomacy Studies, Director of Center for Proof of Foreign Law, and Director of Center for EU Legal Studies.

    Prof. LIN also serves as the Vice Director of the China Society of Indexers, Vice President of the EU Legal Studies Association of the Chinese Association for European Studies, Vice President of the China Societyof Private International Law, President of the EU Legal Studies Association of Shanghai Law Society, Arbitrator of the China International Arbitration Centre, and Arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission.

    Her research is focused on Private International Law, International Competition Law, and Comparative Law. She had presided over and undertaken several research projects, such as the National Social Science Fund Project, projects of the Ministry of Justice, projects of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provincial philosophy and social scientific research projects, etc. In addition, she has publishedmore than 10 legal textbooks and academic works by the Law Press, the Peking University Press. Shehas also published more than 60 academic articles in Legal Science, Political Science and Law, Law and Social Development and other core journals.