Yinuo Li is a Chinese educator. She is the co-founder of ETU school and has been the Director of the China Program at the

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Early life and education

In 1978, Li was born in

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. Her mother was a supervisor at a chemical plant in Jinan. When Li was seven years old, her mother was sent to Germany to pursue further studies. When Li was twelve years old, her parents divorced. She began to live with her mother. From her mother, Li learned about hard work and taking responsibility. At the age of eighteen, she entered

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

's biology department.

Career

In 2005, Li started her career as a consultant at

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. At that time, she was the only Chinese employee at Mckinsey's Los Angeles office. In 2011, she became a global partner at Mckinsey and was one of the only two partners who graduated from a Chinese university. She was also the first Chinese female partner. Her expertise was in the health industry. In 2014, Li started a WeChat public account, "Nuli Society," with her husband. Within two and a half years, the account had more than 400,000 followers. From 2015 to 2020, Li was the Director of the China Program at the

. She focused on health, development, and policy. In 2016, while looking for a school for her child, she realized that both international school and public school systems had faults. Subsequently, she co-founded Etu School, now comprising three campuses around the world. Starting in 2022, Li has been focused on teaching career workshops through her personal website, yinuoli.org. Li serves as a trustee of the 21st Century Education Research Institute and as a board member on the Academic Advisory Board for the

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hip. She was previously a member of the final selection committee of the

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in China.

Personal life

Li and her husband Michael Xufu Huang have three children, Felicity, Marc, Preston.

Publications

2020 "School Is A Little Bigger Than Home" 2021 "Where Strength Comes From: Facing Every Fear"

Awards and honors

2016:

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2017: ifeng.com's "Top 10 Charity Figures of the Year" 2018: Portrait Magazine's "Women of the Year" 2018: Center for China and Globalization's "40 Influential Returnees in 40 Years of Reform and Opening-up" 2020: Fortunechina.com's "The Most Influential Female Business Leader in China"

References

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