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1. Introduction to LEWI

1.2. LEWI Management and Research Team

Prof. Li Si-ming

Director of LEWI, Convenor of Urbanization and Mobility Working Group of
LEWI and Chair Professor of Geography

Prof. Li is currently Director of LEWI, Convenor of

Urbanization and Mobility Working Group of LEWI,
Programme Director of Master of Arts in Global

Society and Chair Professor of Geography.

Prof. Li obtained his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison, the University of

Alberta and Queen’s University, Canada,
respectively, all in the field of Geography.
Previously, Prof. Li served as Director of the Centre

for China Urban and Regional Studies (2001-2011), Interim Dean of Social
Sciences (February-July 2010), Head of the Department of Geography

Department (June 1997 - August 2003), and Course Leader of China Studies
(January 1991 - August 1994). In AY 1994-95 he spent his sabbatical leave as

Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography of National Taiwan
University, where he helped organise probably the first major conference on

China’s regional development in Taiwan. An edited volume based on this
conference was published jointly by LEWI and the Population Research Center
of the National Taiwan University. This book has remained a required reading

for courses on the topic in many universities in Taiwan.

His current research focuses on housing and residential change in urban China
and on housing and urban development in Hong Kong, which has been supported

by nine General Research Fund (GRF) awards from the Research Grant Council
of Hong Kong (RGC), two Public Policy Research (PPR) grants from the Central

Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government, and grants awarded by the
Urban China Research Network based at the State University of New York at

Albany and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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