David Daokui Li
Li Daokui (; born 1963) is the Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics and director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at Tsinghua University'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 program at Tsinghua. Li Daokui is a part of an academic trio that replaced Fan Gang to the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), China's central bank. He is a former  member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Early life and education. As a result of his parents being displaced to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Li's childhood was spent in Sichuan province. He is a member of the 1985 inaugural class of Tsinghua's SEM, and studied abroad following his graduation. Tutored by economic-transition scholars Eric Maskin, Andrei Shleifer, and János Kornai, Li received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1992. Career. Li has held numerous positions in academia. These include a visiting scholarship at the Center for International Development (CID) of the  Harvard Kennedy School (1986), assistant professor at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, research fellow at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University, and professor and deputy director of the Economic Development Research Center of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Li has also served as the editor for the "Journal of Comparative Economics" 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 2016-2018, 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 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 "The Wall Street Journal" 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.