Prof. Liu also serves as the Director of PKU China Center for Health Economic Research, and Chair of the Academic Committee for the PKU Institute of Educational Economics. He has held many distinguished roles in public services, including co-organizing the “US-China Track II Dialogue on Health”, serving on the China State Council Health Reform Advisory Commission; associate editor for SCI academic journals of Value in Health (2001-2012), Health Economics (2013 -); and China Economic Quarterly (2013-2017), the Editor-in-Chief for China Journal of Pharmaceutical Economics (2006 -). Prof Liu obtained his PhD in Economics in 1991 from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, under the supervision of Professor Michael Grossman. In 1994, he completed his postdoctoral study in health economics at the Harvard University, under the supervision of Professor William Hsiao. Prior to joining Peking University, he was on fulltime faculty at University of Southern California, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Peking University Guanghua School of Management. He was the 2004-2005 President of Chinese Economists Society (CES), and the 2004-2006 President of the ISPOR Asian Pacific Contortion.

Currently, he is leading two major global health projects: 1) The Planetary Health Axis System (PHAS), an AI driven multi-axis digital system aiming to track the global development dynamics and the human footprints against the planetary boundaries; 2) The Survey of Medical Assessment for Robotic Technology (SMART), a nationally multicentered economic panel study on robotic surgeries compared to conventional approaches.