Lin Nan

Brock Family Chair Professor, Senior Associate Dean, and Department Head in Management, Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

Professor Lin Nan is the Brock Family Chair Professor, Senior Associate Dean, and Department Head in Management at Daniels School of Business, Purdue University. According to “Accounting Research Rankings” by Brigham Young University, Professor Lin Nan has been ranked in top 10 analytical authors in all topics globally every year since 2019 (#7 in 2019; #6 in 2020; #3 in 2021; #5 in 2022; #4 in 2023). In addition, she was ranked #2 top analytical author in Financial Analytical Research globally in 2019, 2020, and 2022 rankings. She is the only female scholar consistently ranked as the top 10 authors.

Professor Nan has published numerous research papers on top journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Journal of Management Accounting Research. She has won research awards including Jay N. Ross Young Faculty Scholar Award at Purdue and Outstanding Management Accounting Paper Award of American Accounting Association. She currently serves on editorial boards of Journal of Management Accounting Research and Production and Operations Management. Professor Nan is also a distinguished instructor in both residential and online Masters as well as undergraduate programs.

Before joining Purdue in 2012, Professor Nan taught at Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering from Tianjin University, a Master degree in Economics from West Virginia University, and a PhD degree in Accounting from the University of Florida.