Ming Li

Ming Li, EdD, is a professor of sports administration and the chair of the department of sports administration in the College of Business at Ohio University in the United States. Li received his doctorate in sport administration from the University of Kansas. His research interests are in financial and economic aspects of sport as well as management of sport business in a global context.

Li is a former president of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) and is currently serving as commissioner of the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA). He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Sport Management and Sport Marketing Quarterly and has coauthored two books in sport management. He is a guest professor at six institutions in China, including the Central University of Finance and Economics and Tianjin University of Sport.

Li served as an Olympic envoy for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. He also served as a consultant for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games organizing committee.