Zeren Li is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on business-government relations, bureaucracy, good governance, and authoritarian politics, with a particular interest in China. Methodologically, he is interested in “Big Data” analysis of business and politics. He developed automated methods for collecting and matching extensive administrative data, creating two original databases: the Chinese Revolving-Door Officials Database and the Chinese Public-Private Partnership Database.
His research has been published and is forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, The China Quarterly, and other journals. His work has been featured by the Financial Times, CNBC, The Wire China, and The Guardian.
He earned his PhD in Political Science from Duke University. Prior to his time at Duke, he obtained his bachelor’s degree from Fudan University and completed his MPhil at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before joining NUS, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Leitner Program of Political Economy, MacMillan Center, Yale University.
His research has received funding from various institutions, including the National Science Foundation (United States), Google Cloud Platform, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, and others.
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