林茵茵博士现任香港知专设计学院及香港专业教育学院(李惠利)首席讲师(学术发展)，首任基础设计学系系主任。林博士的专业工作范畴著重跨学科的创意教育与学术硏究，儿童艺术与乐活品质, 社会创新与创意工业。


身為设计师、陶瓷艺术家和设计学****，林博士以促进设计、艺术、文化及可持续发展為己任。在艺术和设计方面, 颇有远见的工作经历及敏锐的触觉为她提供了一套独特的教学方法，培养优质设计师和艺术家，既能保留后学鲜明的个人特色，又能把他们培养成创意产业的表表者。
林博士专注的学术硏究方向为艺术、启发创意、文化、发展创意教育课程及教学理念。她曾获邀至日本、台湾、泰国、英国及内地的大学分享设计课程发展的心得。 林博士身兼多项公职，包括国际设计伙伴机构委员、香港设计师协会 (HKDA) 副主席，环球设计大奬筹委会主席 (2012-2014)；学术职业资历评审局学科专家、儿童教育研究及香港考试及评核局的课程发展议会委员 。
Dr. Lam Yan Yan, Principal Lecturer (Academic Development) of the Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee); Former Head of the Department of Design Foundation Studies, HKDI. Dr. Lam’s professional work has been multifarious, spanning creative education and research, art for child and sustainable lifestyle, social innovation and the creative industry. She is a designer, ceramic artist and design academic with a mission to promote design, art and sustainability development. She integrates design sensibility with a yearning to create a flexible, fun and contemporary curriculum to best suit the special characteristics of design learners and trainers. Her research interest lies in curriculum, pedagogy, creative education, and social innovation. She was invited to share her inspiration on curriculum design by institutions in Japan, Taipei, Thailand, United Kingdom and Mainland China. She is actively engaged as subject specialist in art and design programme accreditation, executive members of curriculum development councils, research executive members in creative education at early childhood, tertiary and higher education, editor of conference proceedings and executive members of professional design associations. In 2016, Dr. Lam has invited to be the Visiting Professor of School of Design, Jiangnan University and Visiting Associate Professor of the Faculty of Design & Environment, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong.