Lin Le is an America in the World Consortium Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. His research aims to provide new perspectives and understandings on elite politics, authoritarian governance, and foreign policy-making in communist China, as well as the shifting dynamics and patterns of great power politics, with a particular focus on US-China relations.

Lin completed his Ph.D. in Government at Cornell University, and previous degrees at Stanford University (M.A. in East Asian Studies), the University of Washington, Seattle (M.A. in China Studies) and Shanghai International Studies University (B.A. in Broadcast Journalism).