Xiaojun Li received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University. He is currently Professor of Political Science at UBC and non-resident scholar at the 21st Century China Centre at UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. He is also the President-elect (2025-2027) and President (2027-2029) of the Association of Chinese Political Studies. Previously, he was a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, a POSCO Visiting Scholar at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and an inaugural Wang Gungwu Fellow at the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.

His research related to immigration explores international migration flows and participation in global value chains, the role of digital telecommuncation tools in immigrant integration, and public attitudes toward economic immigrants and refugees in both developed and developing countries.