Dr. Wan-Hsin Liu is a Senior Researcher in the Research Groups "International Trade and Investments" and "Business Cycles and Growth" at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. She is Co-Head of Kiel Institute China Initiative, Coordinator for the Kiel Centre for Globalization and is Content Co-organizer for Kiel Trade Talks. Her research focuses on Chinese direct investments and innovation in China. Since 2024/2025, she has also been working on economic analysis and forecasting for China and the United States. Dr. Wan-Hsin Liu obtained her bachelor degree from the National Taiwan University in 2002 with Accounting as her major and Economics as her minor. After that she studied Economics at the University of Münster and obtained her German master degree in 2006 (Diplom). She earned her doctoral degree in 2012 at the Kiel University (Dr. sc. pol.).