Katherine Xin is Professor of Management, Bayer Chair in Leadership, Associate Dean (Europe), Director of Hospitality EMBA Programme and DBA Programme at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). She holds her Ph.D. from the University of California and was previously on the faculty of the University of Southern California, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Professor Xin specializes in the areas of leadership, organisational culture, change management, and strategic human resource management. Her research work has appeared in the leading international management journals and has won the honor of World’s Most Cited Chinese Researcher in a consecutive of 7 years from 2014 to 2020, released by the authoritative data analysis platform Scopus, the world largest academic paper review database. This is a very objective impact indicator of the scholars Her books Made in China - Secrets of China’s Dynamic Entrepreneurs (2009), Flowers and Thorns: The Exploration of the Globalization Path of Chinese Enterprises (2009), Globalisation of Chinese Firms (2009), Five Types of Effective Leaders (2011), Five-Star Model of Talent Development (2014) Global Expansion- the Chinese Way (2017), Platform Management (2019) and Understanding Organisational Behaviour: Becoming a Manager with High Efficiency (2020) received broad attention from executives globally.

In addition to her research and teaching, she is a consultant and workshop leader, and has undertaken assignments for multinational firms such as Acer, Alcatel, Allicanz, BASF, BMW, Bosch, China Mobile, China Steel, China Telecom, Daimler Benz, Ford Motor Company, Fluor Daniel, Interbrew, Inventec, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Pacific Bell, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Qualcomm, San Miguel, Sony, Toyota, TRW, TSMC, UMC, Baosteel, Baxter and government agencies in the US, HK and the Chinese mainland. She also worked as the marketing director at a high temperature rubber manufacturing company in California, and participated in founding 3 companies.