Managing Director, Senior China Analyst

Xinxin Li, a partner at Observatory Group, covers macroeconomic and political developments in China, including monetary, political and regulatory issues.

Before joining Observatory, Mr. Li spent several years as a diplomat in China’s Foreign Service and as an investment manager with CITIC Group. Xinxin joined Observatory Group in 2007 but took leave in 2010 when appointed a visiting scholar at the People’s Bank of China. Mr. Li spent 2012-13 with China Investment Corporation (CIC, China’s sovereign wealth fund), where he analyzed and supported CIC’s international outreach.

Mr. Li holds an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, an M.A. in Finance from Peking University and a B.A. from Beijing Foreign Studies University.