Prof Rita Yi Man Li is a Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Finance, Hong Kong Shue Yan University. She is the Program Director of the Master of Science in Financial Technology Management (https://ef.hksyu.edu/Programmes/MSc-FTM), Coordinator of MPhil/PhD Program in Economics (https://gs.hksyu.edu/en/Programmes/ResearchPostgraduateProgramme/MPhilPhDinEconomics) and Director of the Sustainable Real Estate Research Center (https://srerc.hksyu.edu/en/) in the same university. She has quite an extensive academic network with research collaborators from Ghana, Australia, the UK, Italy, the US, Cyprus, France, Canada, Thailand, Malaysia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Spain, Pakistan, mainland China, etc. She is also an invited keynote speaker at over 30 conferences, with over 12,000 citations on Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-TW&user=tfTImMsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate) as of October 2026. Over the years, she has won many local and international awards. She acts as a PI and co-I for many academic research grants (over 40 million Hong Kong dollars), including highly competitive grants from the Research Grant Council, Enhancement and Start-up Grant Scheme for Self-financing Post-secondary Education and Public Policy Research Grant in Hong Kong, the ARC Linkage Grant in Australia, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, various grants from People’s Republic of China and other grants obtained from quasi-public institutions and government departments. Many of these are related to artificial intelligence.

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