Professor Min-Ren Yan is the Director of Digital Innovation and Sustainability Institute at National ChengChi University (NCCU) and the President of Taiwan Chapter of the System Dynamics Society. He has been a Visiting Scholar and Teaching Staff at Northwestern University, Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University, Vice President at Chinese Culture University, SSCI/SCI journals editor, and policy research advisor for central government and city governments in Taiwan.
As a policy consultant and Chief Expert for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Asian Productivity Organization (APO), he is the President Emeritus of iiLABs at Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Academy working with SDGs and Sustainable System Development (SSD) education supporting governmental policies, regional developments, industry value chain systems and social innovations in Asia and the global communities.