Dr. Jianxiong Liu will stay in the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) as a visiting scholar for 2016-17 year.

Jianxiong’s research focuses on the New Political Economy, democratic governance, digital economy, finance and development. He has written extensively on problems of development of private enterprises, political development in China.

Jianxiong has worked as an associate professor in Department of Political Economics, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) since 2011. He is the author of Financial Decentralization, Government Competition and Government Governance (2009, Beijing: People’s Publishing House). In the past several years, his papers appeared on the top academic journals such as Economic Research Journal [Jingji Yanjiu] and Management World [Guanli Shijie] in China.

Jianxiong holds a PhD and an MA in economics from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a BA in economics from Northeastern University in Liaoning Province, China.