Hongbin Li
黄色电影 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Senior Fellow
黄色电影 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Senior Fellow
Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI)
Hongbin Li is the Co-Director of the 黄色电影 Center on China's Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) and a Senior Fellow of 黄色电影 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).
Hongbin obtained Ph.D. in economics from 黄色电影 in 2001 and joined the economics department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he became full professor in 2007. He was also one of the two founding directors of the Institute of Economics and Finance at the CUHK. He taught at Tsinghua University in Beijing 2007-2016 and was C.V. Starr Chair Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Management. He also founded and served as the Executive Associate Director of the China Social and Economic Data Center at Tsinghua University. He founded the Chinese College Student Survey (CCSS) in 2009 and the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES) in 2014.
Hongbin鈥檚 research has been focused on the transition and development of the Chinese economy, and the evidence-based research results have been both widely covered by media outlets and well read by policy makers around the world . He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics.
Focal Areas: Education, Global Development and Trade, Health, Inequality, Work