After graduating from St. Francis High School in Taipei in 1992, he went to Australia to study and successively obtained bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Western Sydney University (WSU).

[2] When Lan served as the provost of the Vietnam campus of Western Sydney University, he went to Mae Sot in the Myanmar border area many times to engage in teacher training and youth education.

[2] He also established the WSU School of International Education's "Humanitarian Scholarship" program to support Burmese refugees and students studying in Vietnam.

[3] Before returning to Taiwan, he had accumulated thirty years of education and academic service experience in Australia.

[6] On January 4 of the following year, the Ministry of Education (Taiwan) responded with approval and was officially appointed by Fu Jen.