I am an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. My research focuses on business-government relations, bureaucracy, good governance, and authoritarian politics, with a particular interest in China. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, The China Quarterly, and other journals.

I am the recipient of the Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for Best Comparative Politics Paper from the Midwest Political Science Association and the Gordon White Prize from The China Quarterly.

I earned my PhD in Political Science from Duke University. Prior to Duke, I obtained my bachelor’s degree from Fudan University and completed my MPhil at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before joining NUS, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Leitner Program of Political Economy, MacMillan Center, Yale University.

You can contact me via email at zeren.li@nus.edu.sg.