David Daokui Li

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David Daokui Li (Chinese: 李稻葵, Pinyin: Lǐ Dàokúi) is a Chinese economist, Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and is the Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics. He currently teaches courses on economic transition, corporate finance, international economics, and China's economy.

He is a member of the 1985 inaugural class of the Tsinghua University School of Economics, and studied abroad immediately following his graduation. Studying under economic transition scholars Eric Maskin, Andrei Shliefer, and János Kornai, Li received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1992.

His current research interests are China's macroeconomy, economic development models, international comparisons of economic growth, and China's need to pursue a development pattern fitting with its large economic status.

He has also held the following positions: Harvard International Development (HID) Center Visiting Scholar (1986), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Assistant Professor and China Research Center Research Fellow, Stanford University Brookings Institution Research Fellow, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Professor and Deputy Director of the Economic Development Research Center.

Li has also served as the editor for the Journal of Comparative Economics (2000-2003) and the Economics Bulletin, as well as being named an honorary professor at Sichuan University and Nankai University. He returned to China in 2004 to teach at his alma mater Tsinghua and serve as head of the Center for China in the World Economy research center.

His childhood was spent in Sichuan province, as a result of his parents being displaced to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife and two children.