Biography—

Lin Nan is the Brock Family Chair Professor, senior associate dean of faculty affairs and department head of management at the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. 

As senior associate dean of faculty affairs, Nan oversees academic policies and procedures, faculty recruiting and retention, faculty promotion and evaluation, faculty awards and recognition, faculty annual reviews, merit and summer support, faculty grievance, school strategies, and serving as the business school’s liaison to the Vice Provost Office for Faculty Affairs. 

Nan also heads the management department at Purdue, which includes nine academic areas and 138 full-time faculty members. This involves curriculum and teaching planning, strategic program designing and improvement, and program reviews of the department, which supports more than 5,200 students. Nan is additionally responsible for department and area budgets and expenses, resource allocation, and area head appointments and reviews.

Nan has published numerous research papers in journals such as The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting Research; Journal of Accounting and Economics; Contemporary Accounting Research; Review of Accounting Studies; and Journal of Management Accounting Research. 

She has been recognized for her work and research, including top rankings in accounting research by Brigham Young University, the Purdue Research Foundation International Travel Grant Award and Purdue’s Jay N. Ross Young Faculty Scholar Award.

Prior to joining Purdue in 2012, Nan taught at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.