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ASEAN Panel
Linda Lim
Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan |
 Linda Lim is Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Business School, where she also directs the Southeast Asia Business Program, is a member of the executive committees of the Center for International Business Education and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and is a faculty associate of the Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies and the Center for South Asian Studies. She has also served as Associate Director of the University’s International Institute, and is a board member of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows at the University.
A native of Singapore, Linda obtained her degrees in economics from the universities of Cambridge (BA), Yale (MA) and Michigan (PhD). She has authored, co-authored or edited four books and published nearly 100 other monographs, journal articles and book chapters on trade, investment, industrial policy, labor and business in Asia.
Linda teaches MBA courses and executive education sessions on The World Economy and Business in Asia. She has conducted executive workshops on Asian business, politics, economics and culture for multinational and Asian companies and associations including Coca-Cola, Texaco, Lockheed Martin, Indofood, Motorola, Thomson TV, Delphi Automotive, the Chief Executives Organization and CoreNet Global. She has also done training and briefings for the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute, and the U.S. Trade Representative, has testified to the U.S. Congress House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and has addressed the United Nations General Assembly (Economic Committee) twice. Linda has consulted for many organizations, including various U.S. companies, private think tanks, United Nations agencies and the OECD. |
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Gina M. Capalbo
Manager, Governmental Affairs, Asia Pacific & Africa, International Governmental Affairs, Ford Motor Company
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Gina M. Capalbo manages trade, investment and governmental affairs issues for Ford's operations in Asia Pacific & Africa. She also leads development of multilateral trade strategy for Ford's global operations and coordinates with International Governmental Affairs managers responsible for the Americas and Europe/Russia/CIS regions.
From July to December 2000, Ms. Capalbo was Director of ASEAN Governmental Affairs based in Bangkok, Thailand. She reported to the Director of ASEAN Business Strategy and supported development of Ford's initial regional operations strategy for the ASEAN markets.
During the 1990s, Ms. Capalbo was responsible for Ford new markets worldwide, focusing on China, India, ASEAN, South Korea, Russia, Eastern Europe and Turkey. She was the lead Ford negotiator on a number of trade issues important to the company's new markets including China/Taiwan WTO accession, US-Korea automotive trade agreements, Indonesia national car WTO case, India post-QR auto policy and auto TRIMs extension requests under the WTO.
Ms. Capalbo is an active member of a number of key automotive, trade, business and government organizations including the APEC Auto Dialogue, National Center for APEC, US-ASEAN Business Council, US-China Business Council, US-India Business Council, US-South Africa Business Council and Automotive Trade Policy Council, the Trade Association for DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company and General Motors.
Ms. Capalbo received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Kham (Tom) M. Doan
Managing Partner and founding principal of Horizon Capital Partners
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Kham M. Doan is the Managing Partner and founding principal of Horizon Capital Partners. He is responsible for directing the firm’s advisory and investment strategy and is the firm’s Chief Investment Officer. Prior to founding Horizon, Tom spent three years with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As Head of IFC’s business development group, Tom gained extensive experience developing and structuring investments in Vietnam, including advising state-owned enterprises, local and foreign owned private enterprises.
Since 1995, Tom has developed a deep and broad network of relationships with the local business community and government officials throughout Vietnam. He has advised the government on privatization policy, development of the stock market, bond issuance and infrastructure investments. Before joining IFC, Tom was an investment banker on Wall Street, with most of that time as Vice President of Banc of America Securities Leveraged Finance Group. With Banc of America, his responsibilities included debt and equity capital-raising, mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts.
Tom received his MBA in Finance from the University of Michigan Business School along with a Masters of Public Policy in International Relations from the University of Michigan School of Public Policy. He is fluent in English and Vietnamese.
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Bryan Ritchie
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
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Bryan Ritchie’s research and teaching focuses on the political economy of development, with a particular focus on innovation, technological development, and skills formation. Although interested in these topics generally, his research centers on Southeast Asia. His most recent publications include “Innovation Systems, Collective Dilemmas, and the Formation of Technical Intellectual Capital in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand” (Forthcoming in Business and Society), “Political Preferences and Increasing Returns: the Boon and Bane of Technological Development in Southeast Asia” (2001), and “Economic Crisis and Technological Trajectories: Hard Disk Drive Production in Southeast Asia” (with Richard F. Doner, forthcoming).
In 2000-2001 he was a Fulbright-Hays/Social Science Research Council fellow and visiting researcher at the Thailand Development Research Institute, the National University of Malaysia, and the National University of Singapore. He also has extensive experience in the computer industry including management and consulting roles for numerous firms.
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