Na Li, Research Associate at the Doctoral Program in International Business Taxation (DIBT) at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business has received a Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad. The award was personally handed over to her by His Excellence, the Chinese Ambassador Zhao Bin, in Vienna. 

Na Li joined the DIBT program in 2012. Before then, she practiced as both a Chinese lawyer and a U.S. lawyer (New York State) for 10 years. During her successful three year DIBT program, she has published journal papers and book chapters in both Europe and Asia, presented in many international conferences, lectured at both WU and several Chinese universities and organized successful academic events, collaborating between the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law and Chinese universities. She has nearly completed work on her doctoral thesis topic: “Tax Sparing Mechanism and Foreign Direct Investment –An analysis of the effect of tax sparing mechanism on foreign direct investment from China into the European Union Countries” and is scheduled to make her PhD defensio in June 2015.

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad

The award, started in 2003, was founded by the Chinese Government with the purpose of rewarding the academic excellence of Chinese students who study overseas and are not financed by Chinese government. Only those with outstanding performance in their PhD studies will be considered by the award panel, and no more than 500 young talents worldwide are granted the award each year. This year, only 2 outstanding Chinese students in Austria were selected for this incredibly prestigious award.

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