Prof. Peter Ping Li chaired professor at Xiamen University and Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, China. He used to be Li Dak Sum Chair Professor of International Business at the University of Nottingham at Ningbo, Professor of Management at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Professor of Management at California State University, and also Research Director for the Greater China Region of US-based Center for Creative Leadership (CCL).
His primary research focus is on building the geocentric (West-meeting-East) theories from the cultural and historical perspectives, especially applying the Chinese philosophy of wisdom to the development of holistic, dynamic and duality theories.
He has been widely recognized as one of the global thought leaders in two fastest emerging research streams: (1) multinational firms from the emerging economies, and (2) indigenous research on the Chinese management. He is among the Stanford University List of World Top 2% Scholars in 2020-2023 (ranked 719 out of 52,318 in the field of Business & Management in 2023, one of the three scholars from China).