Yinuo Li

Yinuo Li oversees a team that works with China’s public, private, and nonprofit sectors to address key domestic and global health, development, and policy issues.

Yinuo joined the foundation in 2015 after a career at McKinsey & Company where she was most recently a partner at the firm's Palo Alto office. Her McKinsey career began in Los Angeles, California, United States, in 2005. From 2008 to 2013, while based in McKinsey’s Beijing office, Yinuo served as co-leader of the Healthcare Practice, and leader of the Social Sector and Global Public Health Practice. Her areas of expertise included health system and reform, global health, pharmaceutical and diagnostic products, digital healthcare, and health financing. Her clients covered leading multinational and Chinese pharmaceutical and life science companies, institutional investors, trade associations, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions.

Yinuo was elected a partner at McKinsey in 2011. In 2014, she moved to McKinsey’s office in Palo Alto, California, United States, where she focused on Healthcare and Social Sector Practice. She is a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from industry perspectives to strategy, organization, talent recruitment/development, and women’s leadership.

Yinuo has a B.S. in biology from Tsinghua University in Beijing and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from UCLA.