Li Shengwu (economist)
Li Shengwu (; born 4 February 1985) is a Singaporean economist residing in the United States. He works as an assistant professor at Harvard University, conducting research mainly on behavioral economics. Li is also the grandson of Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore. Education and career Li received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford in 2009 and obtained a Master of Philosophy degree in economics from Oxford in 2011. Li then pursued a PhD in economics at Stanford University, working on economic theory and behavioral and experimental economics. Upon completing his dissertation titled Essays in Theoretical and Behavioral Economics, Li graduated in 2016. Li joined, in 2016, Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. In 2018, he became an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University. Li received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2023. Personal life and family Li was born in 1985 in Singapore to Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Suet Fern. He has two younger brothers, Li Huanwu and Li Shaowu. After the death of Singapore's longtime prime minister Lee Kuan Yew in 2015, Li Shengwu's uncle Lee Hsien Loong, then-prime minister of Singapore, began