Li Li is an assistant research fellow at China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), Beijing, China. Since August 2004, under the supervision of Dr. Alka Acharya, she had been doing her research on China-India relations as a Ph.D. candidate at Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. In January 2008, she was awarded a doctorate degree in international relations by JNU. She got both her bachelor's (1991) and master's (2001) degrees in international politics from Institute of International Relations, Beijing. Before coming to India, she had been working with CICIR since 1991. She had specialized in Middle East studies most of the time. Between 2002 and 2003, she shifted to Division of American Studies of the same institute. She has written extensively on Middle East politics, the peace process, and US relations with the Islamic world. She is the co-editor of Alabo xinsheng dai zhengzhi jia (New Generation Arab Leaders) (Beijing: Shishi chubanshe, 2004), and is the author of several papers and articles, both in Chinese and in English. During her stay in India, Li Li also became a guest faculty member and taught the Chinese language at School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies and School of International Studies of JNU.