Dr. Lili Yan Ing serves as the Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA), a globally recognized institution dedicated to pushing the boundaries of economic thought and addressing pressing global policy challenges. Additionally, Dr. Ing has been appointed Distinguished Fellow of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN), contributing her extensive expertise to the formulation of sustainable economic solutions and strategies on a global scale.

Dr. Ing was appointed as Lead Advisor to the Minister of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia from 2017 to 2019. Prior to that, she had been appointed as Senior Advisor on Trade and Investment at the President’s Office of Indonesia from 2015 to 2017. During her tenure, Indonesia advanced trade and investment policy initiatives, including the successful conclusion of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the Indonesia—Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the Indonesia—Korea CEPA, and the Indonesia—EFTA CEPA. Dr. Ing was also involved in the reactivation of the Indonesia—EU CEPA. Additionally, she represented Indonesia at the G20 Trade Ministers Meeting and the WTO—OECD Trade Ministers Meeting in 2018.

Her recent book, The New Global Economic Order (ed with Dani Rodrik), adds to her distinguished work, that includes Local Content Requirements (ed with Gene Grossman), Robots and AI: A New Economic Era (ed with Gene Grossman), G20 Indonesia: New Normal, New Technologies, New Financing (ed with Dani Rodrik), The Indonesian Economy (ed with Gordon Hanson and Sri Mulyani Indrawati), World Trade Evolution (ed with Miaojie Yu), East Asian Integration (ed with Shujiro Urata and Martin Richardson), and Regional Integration and Non-Tariff Measures in ASEAN (ed with Ralf Peters and Olivier Cadot). In addition, she led the national teams in developing the Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) database for the 16 East Asian countries from 2013 to 2015, NTM Database  and is actively involved in envisioning the ASEAN Digital Community 2045.

In recognition of her long-standing and impactful contributions to economics and policy, Dr. Ing received the IEA Fellow Award in 2022. She was also recognized as a Promising Young Economist by PAFTAD in 2009 and honoured as the Best and Fastest Graduate of Gadjah Mada University in 1999.