Fordham University has honored Justin Yifu Lin, Ph.D., chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, at areception at the Hay-Adams Rooftop in Washington, D.C.
In introducing Lin, Stephen Freedman, Ph.D., senior vice president/chief academic officer, praised the World Bank economist’s key role in founding Fordham’s Beijing International MBA Program (BiMBA), and quoted an economist who said of Lin that ‘his intellectual portfolio is perfectly hedged.’
BiMBA, the first foreign MBA degree program in Beijing ever to be approved by the Chinese government, was created in 1998 by Peking University and a consortium of 26 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States.
Source: Fordham University