Nan Li is an Associate Professor of Finance at Antai College of Economics and Management of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is also the Vice Director of the SJTU Securities Research Investment Institute, and a member of the Banking Industry Research Group in SJTU Institute of Industry Research.

After receiving Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2005, she started her academic career in Department of Finance, NUS Business School in National University of Singapore. She was Affiliated Researcher at the Risk Management Institute and the Institute of Real Estate Studies in NUS. She joined Antai College of Economics and Management (ACEM), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) as an Associate Professor in Finance in 2014. 

Nan Li's research field is Financial Economics and Financial Econometrics with focuses on macro asset pricing. Her current works include pricing of ambiguity, value and risk of intangible capital, and robust decision-making under ambiguity in the financial market.

Nan Li frequently contributes editorial opinion essays to the Nikkei Asia, SupChina, FT Chinese, and other publications. She maintains the blog Nan on Risk at Wechat and Toutiao.