Tom Lin (evangelical)
Tom Lin is a Taiwanese-American evangelical and the eighth president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, an evangelical parachurch organization which works with university students.
Biography
Raised in Chicago to Taiwanese immigrant parents, Lin earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard University in 1994 and a Master of Arts in global leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. In 2014, he earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.From 1994 until 2001, Lin helped to start local chapters of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University and Boston University, after which he was the Mongolia country director of International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, from 2002 to 2006. Lin and his family returned to the United States in 2006, taking up various positions in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, including directing the Urbana Student Missions Conference and, in August 2016, becoming the organization's first non-white president. Lin believes he was appointed the position because of his leadership in crossing racial, cultural, and ethnic barriers.
In 2018, InterVarsity had over 1,000 chapters of its organization on 700 college campuses and Lin set a goal of establishing chapters on 2,500 college campuses.