Li-An Zhou

ZHOU Li'an is a National First-Class Professor in Humanities, Boya Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Economics at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He is currently the Director of the Faculty of Economics and Management at Peking University and a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Professor Zhou has been honored with numerous prestigious titles, including Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program (Ministry of Education), one of Peking University's "Top Ten Teachers," and an Outstanding Teacher of Beijing.

He received his B.A. (1988) and M.A. (1991) in Economics from Peking University, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in the United States in 2002. His primary research fields encompass Political Economy, Industrial Organization, and Economic Transition and Development.

Professor Zhou has published over 60 papers in top-tier domestic and international economics and management journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Journal, Management Science, Journal of Economic History, Strategic Management Journal, Economic Research Journal (《经济研究》), Social Sciences in China (《中国社会科学》), and Management World (《管理世界》). He is also the author of the monographs Local Governments in Transition: Official Incentives and Governance and The Institutional Code of a Unified Empire: Administrative Subcontracting and State Governance.