Professor David Daokui Li selected among the Fourth Batch of Senior Professors of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University

In the afternoon of January 13, a Spring Festival symposium was held for academicians from two schools and senior professors of humanities and social sciences at Tsinghua University. Qiu Yong, secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, partook in the symposium and delivered a speech, with the university’s President Li Luming presiding over the event. Guo Yong, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University, and Wang Hongwei, the university’s vice president, along with more than 30 academicians from two schools and senior professors of humanities and social sciences attended the event. During the symposium, award certificates for the Fourth Batch of Senior Professors of Humanities and Social Sciences were presented in an formal ceremony. David Daokui Li, director of the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) and professor of the School of Social Sciences, was selected to join the Fourth Batch of Senior Professors of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University.

David Daokui Li, born in December 1963, holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, serves as a professor at the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, receives a special government allowance from the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, and was selected for a Changjiang Distinguished Professorship in 2004. He serves as co-president of the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) and director of the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) at Tsinghua University. Dr. Li was a member of the 11th and 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a member of the Standing Committee of the 13th CPPCC National Committee, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China, the president of the Chinese Economists Society (CES), the founding dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, and the first chief economist of the New Development Bank (formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank). He has long devoted himself to summing up the lessons learned from China's economic thought and practice, building an independent knowledge system in the discipline of economics, and promoting the establishment of government and economics as an emerging field of study. He is the author of “Economic Lessons from China’s Forty Years of Reform and Opening-up” and “The Future Path of China's Economy: Lessons from the German Model for China.” Dr. Li was also awarded with the First Prize of the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Outstanding Achievement Award in Scientific Research.