Dr. Haiying Lin received a PhD in Sustainability Management from George Mason University (USA) in 2010. She is now a professor and PhD supervisor at HAITC - a joint international college established by Arizona State University and Hainan University. She serves on the editorial board for the journal Business and Society and acts as a Chinese coordinator for the Golden Sustainability Network. She was a judge of the Hult Prize supported by the Clinton Foundation, and participated in the US Corporation-NGO Task Force sponsored by the Pacific Basin Research Center at the Soka University of America. As the principal investigator of a Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council project titled “Cross-sector Solutions to Environmental Issues”, she led a global research team to win the 2014 and 2018 Routledge Best Paper Award in Social Partnership, the 2014 European EFMD Case Writing Competition (under the “Corporate Social Responsibility” category), and the 2011 Emerald Best International Symposium Award. Since returning to China in 2020, she has won four research grants including the 2022 National Social Science Fund (22BGL232 “Cross-sector Solutions to Rural Revitalization”). Her research projects have been published in high-end journals such as Business Strategy and the Environment (impact factor 10.801), Organization and Environment (impact factor 7.919), Journal of Business Ethics (impact factor 6.331), and Business and Society (impact factor 7.792). Her research results were specially recommended by the industry journal Annual Review of Social Partnerships (Issue No 9, 2014) and the Sustainable Business Network in 2014 and 2017, respectively.