Jin Li is Zhang Yonghong Professor in economics and strategy, Director of the Centre for AI, Management and Organization (CAMO), and area head of management and strategy at Hong Kong University Business School. Before HKU, he taught at Kellogg School of Management and London School of Economics, where he was a tenured associate professor of managerial economics and strategy. During his tenure at LSE, Professor Li won the Management Department teaching prize.

Li's main research area lies at the intersection of organizational economics, personnel economics, and labor economics. It focuses on the dynamics of informal relationships and explores how firms can design organizations to align incentives and build trust. This research shows how organizational design can be a source of competitive advantage. Recently, Li has studied topics on the digital economy, including causality issues in machine learning algorithms and blockchain governance. His current research interest focuses on AI and Organization.

Li is an associate editor at Management Science. He has published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, The Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Labor Economics, Management Science, The RAND Journal of Economics, and The Review of Financial Studies.

Li's works have been featured in media outlets such as the BBC, The Economist, The New York Times, and Quartz. He has written for the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Caixin, FTChinese, and the Project Syndicate.

Li earned his BA in economics and math (with high honors) from Wesleyan University, a BSc in applied math (with honors) from Caltech, and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.