dr.ir. Y. (Ying) Zhang

[Dr. ir. Ying Zhang ][Dr. ir. Ying Zhang]owns a cross-disciplinary background including industrial engineering, traditional chinese medicine, economics, and management. She actively contributes as a scholar, educator, advisor, [TEDxSpeaker][], business developer, and a social entrepreneur. At RSM, she is an Associate Dean for China Business & Relations, a tenured Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; she is also the founder and the head of the [Erasmus-Huawei Collaboration Program][],[ ][Link 1][New Silk Road Institute][New Silk Road_Institute], [Erasmus China Business Center][], and executive chairwoman of [Identitat Global Forum][]. Professor Zhang has been a [Visiting Professor and a Research Fellow at Harvard University][] (Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School), [Honorary Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University ][Honorary Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University]and a guest professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She serves as a [strategic advisor][] at Strategic Swiss Partners; a Global Network Partner for [GLORAD][], an Academic Advisory Board Member of [Amsterdam School of International Business][]; and a Senior Academic Advisor for the Steering Group of Dutch National Framework of the BBA Program International Business. Professor Zhang is awarded as one of[ the Top 30 Thinkers][the Top 30 Thinkers] under the Radar by Thinkers50.com,  [“Top 40 Business School Professor Under 40”][Top 40 Business School Professor_Under 40]  worldwide; [A NativeSociety Featured Business School Professors][A NativeSociety_Featured Business School Professors] in the USA, an Elite Professional Woman by National Association of Professional Women (in the USA), and [Harvard Business Review China Business Mentor][].  She is also an active contributor to the [Belt-Road-Initiative][] in Europe and the Project Leader (from Erasmus) in China’s National Key Research on International Inland Transportation under China’s Belt-Road-Initiative Plan and China’s Strategic International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation. Professor Zhang's academic insight on United Nations SDG9 has won 2019  ["MOOC Award of Excellence][MOOC Award of Excellence] " from SDGAcademy and UNSDSN.  

 Professor Zhang promotes the relevance of academic research and argues for the necessity of cross-sector collaboration between business, education research,  and social-economic circumstance.  She advocates the value of social innovation as well as the effort to build a sustainable community. Her studies and opinions have been published and quoted by the global leading media and managerial journals such as Bloomberg, Financial Times, ChinaDaily, China Economics Net,  Washington Post, China Policy Review (Formerly China Economic Report), Caixin, EuroBiz, NRC, China Radio International, RushHour(AM1300), EUreporter, People's Daily, EFMD GlobalFocus, Wirtschafts Woche, CKGSB Knowledge, Managerial Insight, SAGE Knowledge, Harvard Business Review, and Harvard Economics Review, etc. Professor Zhang applies phenomena-driven analytical teaching methodology by using her teaching cases from HBS, RSM, and IVEY and encouraging students' cross-disciplinary development.  Her speeches are among with governments, NGOs, Corporates at educational, industrial, and political forums such as with Academic of Management Association, Management and Organization Review, EFMD- AACSB-Associated Deans Meetings, European Union Think-Tanks, Horasis  Conferences, World Economic Forum, European Space Agency, [NRC][], CCTV, as well as [TED Talk ][TED Talk], etc. 

On research, Professor Zhang supervises cross-disciplinary studies at graduate, executive, and Ph.D. level.  Her research and derived social impact are at both macro and micro levels, from both an academic and practice angle, varying from social-economic transition and entrepreneurship development, Inequality-based society towards equality-based sharing value society and [future of jobs][], to corporate entrepr