As the Senior Vice President of BYD, Stella Li is responsible for overall BYD overseas business. She joined BYD in 1996 as a manager in the marketing division where her responsibilities were to train the sales team and create a marketing strategy. The next year, Li opened BYD’s first overseas office in Hong Kong, followed by the first European office in Rotterdam and the BYD North America Sales Headquarters in Chicago a few years later. 

Li received her bachelor's degree in Statistics from Fudan University in 1992.