Shanjun Li is a Professor of Applied Economics and Policy, and he holds the Kenneth L. Robinson Chair in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. His research areas include environmental and energy economics, urban and transportation economics, empirical industrial organization, and Chinese economy. His recent research examines pressing sustainability issues in China and their global implications in order to inform evidence-based policymaking.

He serves as Director of the Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER), an editor for the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,  and a co-editor for the International Journal of Industrial Organization and the Journal of Public Economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a university fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). He will join Stanford University in July 2025 with a joint appointment at the Doerr School of Sustainability and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Contact Information: 405 Warren Hall, Cornell University  |  SL2448@cornell.edu