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 won multiple international awards and funded by prestigious institutions, including the Gates Foundation. Notably, her book was recognized by the China-Britain Business Council as one of the “Best Books on China of 2024" and earned a silver medal in the 2025 Axiom Business Book Awards (International Business/Globalization category). In 2021, she was named one of Poets & Quants’ Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors globally. She holds a PhD in Political Science, along with master’s degrees in Statistics and International Policy from Stanford University.