Li Daokui (; born 22 December 1963) is a Chinese economist and the Mansfield Freeman Professor of

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and director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...

's School of Economics and Management (SEM), where he teaches courses on economic transition, corporate finance, international economics, and China's economy. In 2013, Li was appointed the founding dean of the

Schwarzman Scholars Schwarzman Scholars (), founded by American financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, is an international postgraduate award program for students to study at Tsinghua University. Awards are made to 100–200 applicants per year, worldwide. The program s ...

program at Tsinghua. Li Daokui is a part of an academic trio that replaced

Fan Gang Fan Gang (; born in 1953) is one of China's most prominent economists and one of China's most active reform advocates. He is currently based in Beijing, serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) a ...

to the Monetary Policy Committee of the

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(PBOC), China's

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. He is a former member of the

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Career

Li has held numerous positions in academia. These include a visiting scholarship at the

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(CID) of the

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(1986),

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at the

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, research fellow at the

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, and professor and deputy director of the Economic Development Research Center of

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a public research university in Clear Water Bay Peninsula, New Territories, Hong Kong. Founded in 1991 by the British Hong Kong Government, it was the territory's third institution ...

. Li has also served as the editor for the ''

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'' from 2000 to 2003 and the ''Economics Bulletin.'' He returned to China in 2004 to teach at his alma mater, Tsinghua, and to serve as head of the Center for China in the World Economy research center. From 2016 to 2018, Li was a member of the monetary policy committee of China's central bank. He was succeeded by Dingo Xu on the board of

JD.com JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong (), internationally known as Joybuy and formerly called 360buy,

in 2018. In 2018, he presented for the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) a report by titled "Economic Lessons Learned from China's Forty Years of Reform and Opening-Up". He has written op-eds for ''

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'' on topics like the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank. In August 2020, Li stated China could restrict exports of medicine to the U.S. in response to American technology export restrictions on China.

References

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