Cheng LI is Director of Research and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. Dr. Li currently also serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Team of the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an advisor to the World Bank, and a director of the Committee of 100. Li is the author/editor of Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform (1997), China’s Leaders: The New Generation (2001), Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange 1978-2003 (2005), China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy (2008), and China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation (2010). He is currently completing two book manuscripts: Chinese Politics in the Era of Collective Leadership and Middle Class Shanghai. He is the principal editor of the Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series published by the Brookings Institution Press. He is also a columnist for the Stanford University Journal, China Leadership Monitor. He has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Economist, Newsweek, Business Week, and Foreign Policy. He received an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University.
