Gordon G Liu is Yangtze River Scholar in Economics of the Ministry of Education. He is the director of the Academic Committee of National School of Development at Peking University, and Deputy Director of the Department of Economic Management at Peking University. He has been a professor at Peking University since 2006 and director of the China Health Economics Research Center at Peking University.

He has worked for the University of Southern California(1994-2000) ,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill(2000-2006, tenured professor), Guanghua School of Management, the chairman of the Chinese Economic Association of the United States, and the first chairman of the Asia-Pacific Federation of International Pharmaceutical Economics.

Professor Liu is also a member of the State Council's National Medical Reform Expert Advisory Committee, and the deputy editor of the International Health Economics English Academic Journal "Health Economics" (SCI).