LI, Shi
Professor, Beijing Normal University;
Executive Dean of CIID; Yangtze-Scholar Professor
Professor Li Shi is the Distinguished Professor of Beijing Normal University and a doctoral tutor; the Executive Dean of the China Income Distribution Institute of Beijing Normal University; and the Distinguished Professor of the Yangtze River Scholar. He is also the researcher at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), a researcher at the China Center for Economic Growth Research at Oxford University, the member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Center for Economic and Human Development Studies at Peking University, the adjunct professor at the National School of Administration, an adjunct professor at the School of Economics at Zhejiang University, the researcher of Center for Economic Development Research at Wuhan University, invited researcher of the Shanghai Institute of Economics and Law, member of the Academic Committee of the Tianze Institute, member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the State Council Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation, member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, member of expert consultation of the China Employment Promotion Association, project experts of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Agency, International Labor Organization, National Development and Reform Commission and State Council Poverty Alleviation Office.
His main research areas are development economics and labor economics. His main academic expertise is income distribution, poverty, and labor mobility. He has won the 8th China Economic Theory Innovation Award (Economic Transformation and Development of Income Distribution Theory in China, 2017), Sun Yefang Economics Award (1994, 2010, 2016), the Second Prize of outstanding achievement of scientific research in higher education (Humanities and Social Science, 2013 and 2015), Beijing Excellent Teacher in 2013, Zhang Peigang Development Economics Award in 2010, the Third Prize of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements in 2009, his work-China Human Development Report 2005-was awarded the 2007 United Nations Human Development Award and the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1996, 2000, 2002), and was granted a government subsidy by the State Council in 1999.
