He received his Ph.D. in Business Economics in 2011 from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Dr. Li formerly worked as a consultant for the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank in 2008 and as a business analyst for Bain & Company in 2004. He received an M.S. in Managerial Economics from the Queen's School of Business at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and an M.A. and B.A., both in Economics, from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.