Nan Li is Deputy Division Chief at the Development Macroeconomics division in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Research Department, with research expertise spanning international macroeconomics, trade, innovation, inflation, and growth. She brings fifteen years of IMF experience across research, surveillance, program review, and capacity development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In the Research Department, she has led the DataHub Initiative—building partnerships with country authorities to harness administrative microdata for macroeconomic policy analysis—and led chapters of the IMF's flagship World Economic Outlook, and strengthened the IMF-UK program on Macroeconomic Research in Low-Income Countries. Prior to her current role, she worked in the African Department and the Institute for Capacity Development, and served as an Associate Editor of IMF Economic Review. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of International Economics. Before joining the Fund, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at The Ohio State University and Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.  She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Peking University, China. 

Primary expertise: International Macroeconomics, Trade, Economic Growth, Innovation, Structural Reforms.

Recent research interests: Productivity, Knowledge Diffusion, Services Trade, Micro-level Data.

All views expressed on this site are my own and do not necessarily reflect the position of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF management. 

Email: nli at IMF.org

Office Address: 700 19th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20431, USA