Lizhi Liu is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the author of the award-winning book From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China (Princeton University Press, 2024). Her research on the politics of trade and technology has earned multiple awards and funding from prestigious institutions, including the Gates Foundation. Her work has been featured in Bloomberg, WIRED, the WIRE China, and the South China Morning Post. Notably, her book has received wide recognition: it won a Silver Medal in the 2025 Axiom Business Book Awards (International Business/Globalization category), was named one of the “Best Books on China of 2024” by the China-Britain Business Council, and was selected as a Notable Business Book of 2025 by PracticalEcommerce. Its earlier manuscript also received two prestigious dissertation awards.
Liu teaches both undergraduates and MBA students. She was named one of Poets&Quants’ Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors in 2021 and received the Georgetown Faculty & Staff Career Champion Award in 2022. For 2025-2026, she has been selected to a member for the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils on International Trade and Investment.
More information about her research is available at lizhiliu.com.
Academic Appointment(s)
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- Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business