Zhi Liu is an assistant professor in the Department of Organization and Strategy Management at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. She received her Master in Business Administration and Ph.D. in Management at Columbia Business School, Columbia University.

Her research interests include organizational culture and norms, cross-cultural differences in organizational behaviors, organizational ethics and justice, the psychology of corruption, leadership, and creativity.

She has published at worldwide top-tier peer-reviewed academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Annual Review of Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, and Academy of Management Best Proceedings.

She chaired symposiums and presented papers at international conferences such as Academy of Management (AOM), International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR), and Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). 

She teaches courses to undergraduate, postgraduate, Ph.D., MBA, EMBA, and executives both in Chinese and English, such as Organizational Behavior, Organization and Management, Team Management and Leadership, CSR and Ethics, Critical Thinking and Business Ethics, Action Learning, Methods and Design in Management Research, Experimental Design and Analysis, Multivariate Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling. She worked at a consulting firm and a cultural service firm.