Na Li is an associate researcher from the Institute of Urban and Demographics Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). She is the director of the Consulting Department (Shanghai Branch) in the China Center for International Economic Exchanges. She majors in regional economy, ocean economy, and urban development. She graduated from Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology Chinese Academy of Sciences and gained her doctoral degree in 2007. From July to September 2015, she was a visiting scholar at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and received the Marie Curie Scholar title.