Cheng Li is Director and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. Dr. Li is also Director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. His recent books include Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership (2016), The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China (2017), and Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement (2021). Li received an M.A. in Asian Studies from UC. Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton.