Hui Li

Dr. Li Hui is an Assistant Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She attained her PhD in Public Administration and Policy from the University of Georgia, USA, and a Master in Public Administration from Fudan University, China. Prior to joining the LKY School of Public Policy, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Eastern Michigan University from 2008 to 2011. Her primary research and teaching area is public budgeting and finance. Her research interests lie in fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations, local finance and governance, and corruption and development in emerging economies. Some of the topics she has worked on are China’s intra-provincial fiscal disparities and fiscal equalization policies, land finance and land use reforms, local cadres’ performance and promotion, and public-private partnerships. Her articles appear in Land Use Policy, Journal of Urban Affairs, Public Finance and Management, Journal of Contemporary China, China: An International Journal, Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development, among other outlets.

Professor Li is also a faculty associate at Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, where her research project focuses on growth and competitiveness analysis of sub-national economies in Indonesia. Professor Li has provided extensive executive education and consulting services for various international organizations including OECD, UNDP, ADB, UNESCAP, among others, and government agencies and companies in China, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, India, South Korea and United States. She has served as a resource person for local and international media including Singapore Channel 8, Lianhe Zaobao, 88.3 Jia FM, China Daily, among others.

Professor Li serves as a council member of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) International Chapter (2018-2020), and also a board member of the Section on Chinese Public Administration (SCPA) of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) (2019-2022)