Invited Speakers
演讲嘉宾
（In order of presentation 按演讲顺序）
Hongbin Li is an economist at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions. His research focuses on education, labor, and economic development in China, and he has led multiple nationally representative surveys that have shaped public discourse and policy. His forthcoming book with UC San Diego professor Ruixue Jia, The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China, will be published by Harvard University Press in September 2025.
李宏彬是斯坦福大学的经济学家，斯坦福大学中国经济与制度研究中心主任，研究主题为中国的教育、劳动力和经济发展，并领导了多项在中国具有广泛影响的国家级调查。他和加州大学圣地亚哥分校贾瑞雪教授的合著 The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China 将于2025年9月由哈佛大学出版社出版。
Xu Li is Associate Dean for Administration at the School of Design, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. She joined the newly established SUSTech in 2010 and contributed to shaping its governance and education structure through her roles in several offices including the Center for Education Research, Teaching Affairs Office, and Global Engagement Office. In 2020, she joined the newly established School of Design, where she is responsible for operations, education assessment and partnership. Xu received a Ph.D. degree in higher education from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
李旭为南方科技大学创新创意设计学院行政副院长。2010年加入南方科技大学，致力于现代大学制度建设和拔尖创新人才培养。先后任职学校高等教育研究中心、教学工作部、联合国教科文二类机构筹备办公室、国际合作部，其中多个部门为初创。2020年调入创新创意设计学院，负责支撑新学院筹建、院内教学评估和产学研协同。她于美国密歇根大学获得高等教育博士学位。
Dingxin Zhao is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Zhejiang University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. A leading scholar of social movements, political change, and historical sociology in China, his book The Confucian-Legalist State has been published in both Chinese (Zhejiang University Press) and English (Oxford University Press). In recent years, he has dedicated himself to advancing the development of social science scholarship in China.
赵鼎新是浙江大学人文高等研究院院长、芝加哥大学荣休教授，以研究中国社会运动、政治变迁和历史社会学而著称。其《儒法国家》中英文版分别由浙江大学和牛津大学出版。近十年多来，他致力于在中国推动社会科学的学术发展。
Yao Lin is a political scientist and legal scholar. From 2021 to 2025, he taught at NYU Shanghai. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and undergraduate and master’s degrees in biology and philosophy from Peking University. He has published in leading political science and area studies journals such as American Political Science Review and the Journal of Contemporary China. His latest book, Empty Talk, was published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House in 2024.
林垚，青年学者，2021-2025年在上海纽约大学任教，哥伦比亚大学政治学博士、耶鲁大学法学院法学博士(JD）、北京大学生物学学士暨哲学硕士。他在《美国政治科学评论》、《当代中国期刊》等顶尖政治学与区域研究期刊发表文章，其最新著作《空谈》由上海译文出版社2024年出版。
Margaret (Molly) Roberts is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego and Co-Director of the China Data Lab at the 21st Century China Center. She specializes in text analysis and large-scale data methods to study propaganda, censorship, and the impact of U.S.-China relations on bilateral exchange. She and her co-authors are engaged in a series of studies examining the impact of U.S.-China tensions on science, technology and talent in the U.S. and China.
Margaret (Molly) Roberts 是加州大学圣地亚哥分校政治学系教授、二十一世纪中国研究中心中国数据实验室共同主任。她运用文本分析和大数据方法，研究威权政体中的宣传与审查，以及中美关系对双边交流的影响。她与合作者正在开展一系列研究，探讨中美关系对中美两国的科技发展与人才流动所产生的影响。
Yingyi Ma is Professor of Sociology and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She also directs Asian/Asian American Studies and is a Public Intellectual Program Fellow of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. In 2021, she was awarded the Ni-Yang and Li Xiao-Qing Endowment for U.S.-China/Asia Relations. A Chinese version of her 2020 book Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education published by the Columbia University Press, was recently published by Sanlian Press in 2024.
马颖毅为雪城大学麦克斯韦尔公民与公共事务学院社会学教授和政策研究中心高级研究员，她同时也是亚洲/亚裔美国人研究主任，美中全国委员会公共学者项目成员。2021年荣获“中美/亚洲关系倪扬、李晓晴捐赠基金”，著有《留学的孩子》，英文原著2020年哥伦比亚大学出版，中文著作2024年由三联书店出版。
