A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2017, Ming Li is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Concordia University. He is also a member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ).

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his research interests are strategic information transmission, persuasion, game theoretical models of elections and political processes.

He has written research articles on a variety of subjects, including conflicts of interest in advisor-decision maker relationships, behavioural models of voter turnout, institutional conservatism as a remedy for excessive risk-taking by politicians.

Nowadays, he mainly spends time thinking about how communication and persuasion affect economic and political decision-making, and what measures can be taken to facilitate efficient communication and persuasion.