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CREDENTIALS
- Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, UC San Diego
- Associate Research Scientist, UC San Diego
- Explorer at National Geographic Society
- Advisor to the Harvard Business School
- Founder at Tomnod (acquired By Digital Globe)
- Founder at Planet3 inc. (www.exploreplanet3.com)
TELLING THE STORY
Albert’s passion for story telling translates across his on stage presence as well as through the camera lens. He is represented by National Geographic’s Speaker Bureau (non-exclusively), and GERSH (Contact Stewart Cavanah).
FILM + TV
EXPLORER
National Geographic
Role: Explorer
Barriers Are in Your Mind | The Spark
National Geographic
Role: Explorer
Lost Cities With Albert Lin
National Geographic
Role: Explorer
Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings
National Geographic Channel
Role: Presenter and Explorer
CHINA’s Mega Tomb
BBC and National Geographic Channel Co-Production (2 hours)
Role: Presenter and Narrator
Forbidden Tomb of Genghis Khan
National Geographic Channel (1 hour)
Role: Lead Explorer and Narrator
Origins
National Geographic Series
Role: Contributor
Satellites
BBC (1 hour)
Role: Contributor
DIGITAL PROMOS
National Geographic / Samsung Innovation Spotlight
National Geographic / BMW Explorer Spotlight
Bank of Singapore Explorer Spotlight
Google (Science Fair) Satellite Media Tour
National Geographic 125 Celebration
Intel CES Spotlight
RECENT SPEAKING APPEARANCES
Darwin lecture, Cambridge university 2020
Ink talks, jaisalmer India 2020
National Geographic story tellers summit, 2019
Facebook global marketing meeting 2019
2017 Siggraph Asia Keynote
2017 Hong Kong Tatler’s Gen T, Hong Kong
2017 March for Science, National Mall, D.C. 2017 SXSW, Austin, Texas
2017 USA RICE Annual Meeting
2017 APOS FOX, Bali Indonesia
2017 Nat Geo Global Licensing Summit, NV
2017 National Geographic Further Fronts, NYC
2016 National Geographic Live, Singapore
2016 YPO’s Pacific Edge, LA
2015 FEI Annual meeting, Seattle WA
2015 Prudential Annual Meeting, Newark NJ