The Clare Hall Tanner and Tanner Founder’s Lecture 2025
We are delighted to welcome Professor David Daokui Li and Professor Rana Mitter as our speakers for the Clare Hall Tanner and Tanner Founder’s Lecture 2025, on Monday 17 March from 5pm. The lectures will explore the future of relations between China and the West.
About the speakers
Professor David Daokui Li
Professor David Daokui Li is a leading Chinese economist. He has been professor of Economics of Tsinghua University since 2006. Together with Eric S. Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate of Economics, he is a Co-president of the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE). He also served as the founding Dean of the Schwarzman College of Tsinghua University from 2014 to 2017. His research and teaching cover a wide range of economic fields, including government and economics, economic development, comparative economics, and the Chinese economy.
As the Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE), which has evolved to become the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) of Tsinghua University, he has been active in policy discussions inside and outside China. He was a member of the monetary policy committee of China’s central bank and a consultant to the International Monetary Fund. Between 2008 and 2023, served as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). In July 2019, he was appointed the Chief Economist of the New Development Bank.
Professor Li holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He obtained his B.S. from Tsinghua University in 1985 as a member of the first cohort of graduates of the School of Economics and Management.
Professor Rana Mitter
Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Spectator, The Critic, and The Guardian. He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association. He previously taught at Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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