Mei Li

Mei had a decade of working experience on Wall Street. She worked at Citigroup Global Markets, FTN Financial, and American International Group (AIG) as an Economist and Strategist to support its $360bn AUM providing global macro strategy research. She was frequently interviewed and widely quoted on major media including BBC, Agence France Presse, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Xinhua News Agency, Sina Finance and People’s Daily, Ebru News TV, etc.

She has been teaching at NYU for three years, while she also delivers lectures at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. She is a Ph.D. in economics candidate at CUNY Graduate Center and earned a Bachelor's degree in Finance with the highest distinction from Sun Yat-Sen University and a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. In her spare time, she likes singing, playing the piano, composing songs, watching sports games, and traveling.