Shiumei Lin, Vice President, Public Affairs & Sustainability, UPS Asia Pacific Region

Shiumei Lin is Vice President for Public Affairs responsible for policy advocacy, issues management, public-sector collaboration, and sustainability in China, North Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

Shiumei is currently Chair of the Customs & Trade Facilitation Committee of the US ASEAN Business Council.  She also serves on the boards of Green Freight Asia and Conference of the Asia Pacific Express Carriers (CAPEC).

Shiumei is a trade and public policy practitioner with more than 20 years of experience. Prior to joining UPS in 2010, Ms. Lin worked at the Ministry of Trade & Industry and was a member of the APEC policy team during Singapore’s Chairmanship in 2009.

She spent more than ten years working on US-Vietnam relations coordinating efforts to gain support for economic normalization in Washington, DC, while facilitating government to government understanding, and assisting US companies on the ground.  While living in Hanoi in the late nineties, Ms. Lin designed technical assistance programs for Vietnamese ministries, and advised on issues relating to the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement and Vietnam’s WTO accession.

She is a graduate of the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University (Master of Arts) and the University of Colorado, Boulder (Bachelor of Arts).