Vincent F. Yip – Born in Singapore, Vincent Yip received his BS (Physics) from Case Western Reserve, PhD (Materials Science) from the University of Southern California and then an MBA (International Business) from U of San Diego. His work career began in materials R&D, followed by a 10-year career with the Singapore Government in economic development, technology management, his top position being Executive Director and Administrator of the Singapore Science Park between 1982 and 1989. In 1989 he was conferred by the French decoration of “Palmes Academiques”. He served as Singapore’s Deputy Ambassador to the EU and the Vatican in 1989-1991.
Vincent Yip was Visiting Professor at Northwestern University in 1991-94 and co-taught courses in technology management and cross-cultural management at Kellogg Graduate School of Management’s top-rated MBA and EMBA programs. While living in China between 1994-2001, he worked as General Manager of an environmental technology startup and later as a trainer/consultant for IPS Company and taught project management to some 5,000 engineers and managers of multinational corporations as well as Chinese companies. He also guest lectured at Tsinghua University’s EMBA course in 1999-2000.
He returned to the Bay Area in 2001 and taught courses in technology and product management at University of San Francisco and since 2008 teaches three courses at Stanford Continuing Studies program: “Project Management,” “Doing Business in China” and “Technology Entrepreneurship.” In 2010 he co-taught “The Silk Road” with a Stanford history professor, and is scheduled to teach “The Silk Road” at Santa Clara University’s OLLI program in Fall 2016.
Vincent is bilingual in English and Chinese at professional interpreter level, and speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien with native-speaker proficiency, and he has studied German and French at the introductory level. He is the author of three books on China, including “Ethnic Groups of China”, and published numerous articles in technical as well as business journals. He is a sought-after public speaker, university lecturer and China consultant.