Zhuoran Ren joined the Center for International Development's Growth Lab as a Visiting Fellow in from March - September 2022.

Her research focuses on multinational enterprises and regional industrial development. By measuring and analyzing economic complexity and industrial relatedness, she aims to explore the impact of foreign-owned enterprises on China's regional industrial development.

She obtained her bachelor's degree from East China Normal University in 2014 and is now a Ph.D. candidate at Peking University.