Haizheng Li, Ph.D.

Dr. Haizheng Li is an Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology. He has served as President of the Chinese Economists Society (2006-07) (http://www.china-ces.org/ ), a consultant for the World Bank, a Special Research Fellow of the Shanghai Development & Reform Commission in China, and is a member of Advisory Board of China Economic Review, and Special Term Professor at Hunan University, China.

At Georgia Tech, he is currently Co-director of the Georgia Tech-Shanghai Summer Program (http://china.ece.gatech.edu/shanghai/ ), and Director of Information Technology in the School of Economics. He has also served as expert witness in court in Atlanta.

His research focuses on applied econometrics, primarily in the areas of labor economics, industry studies, and the Chinese economy. He has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. In the labor area, his research interests include labor market issues such as labor supply, migration, wage determination and human capital, focusing on the evolving labor markets in China. In industry studies, he has mainly worked on price behavior in the pulp and paper industry. His teaching includes graduate and undergraduate econometrics, economic forecasting, labor economics, and microeconomics.

In recent years, Dr. Li has received two large research grants from the Sloan Foundation Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies (more than $450,000 including tuition waive), and one large grant from the 985-Project of the Department of Education of the Chinese government via Hunan University (more than 1.25 million RMB).

Dr. Li received his Ph. D in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder, his Master’s degree in economics from Renmin University of China, where he also served as a faculty member, and his Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Huazhong University of Science & Technology in China.