Lei Lei is responsible for providing leadership and coordination of ADB's economic work and development research in South Asia. He is based in the India Resident Mission.
Lei Lei Song is a Principal Economist of the Asian Development Bank. He works in the area of regional economic and financial monitoring at the Office of Regional Economic Integration. Mr. Song has more than 16 years of professional experience in research specializing in applied macroeconomics including macroeconomic modeling, unemployment and inflation, and international economics. Prior to joining ADB he was with the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research as a Research Fellow for six years. He was a Visiting Academic at the Australian Treasury in Canberra in 2006. Mr. Song started his career in 1991 as a Research Fellow at the China Development Institute in Shenzhen. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Melbourne, Australia.