Jialu Li is a 2024-2025 GPEP pre-doctoral fellow and a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research focuses on how states and firms navigate foreign economic coercion and geopolitical conflicts. Leveraging field interviews and quantitative analysis, she explores the strategic responses of three key groups: 1) the Chinese government’s adaptation of its industrial policy in response to US sanctions, 2) US-sanctioned firms and their supply chain partners' lobbying efforts in the US, and 3) American politicians providing subsidies to manufacturing firms to reshore back to the US. In other work, she examines the impact of the Ukraine crisis on firms' decisions to withdraw from Russia and the broader effects of WTO rulings on transparency and cooperation.

Previously, Jialu was a 2023-2024 Morgenthau Fellow at the International Security Center at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Peking University and an M.A. in Regional Studies–East Asia from Harvard University.