Eric Li S. M. is chairman of Chengwei Capital. He is founder and chairman of Guancha.cn, and a trustee of Fudan University's China Institute and chairman of its advisory council. He also serves on the boards of School of SciTech Business at University of Science and Technology of China, Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, Asia Society Hong Kong, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He received his B.A. in economics from University of California, Berkeley, MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, and Ph.D. in political science from Fudan University. He is a frequent contributor to leading global publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Economist. He is the author of Party Life - Chinese Governance and the World Beyond Liberalism, publishes by Palgrave Macmillan.