VP of HR China McDonald

Liman Xia (Susanna Li) is the VP of HR at China McDonald's. She graduated with a BS in Marketing and Business Management from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Around the same time when she received her BS, she also obtained a degree in business administration from South Australian School of Business Administration. She is also a member of Golden Keys Association and the Hong Kong Business and Professional Women's Association. In 1987, she worked as a part-time employee for a McDonald restaurant where she began to serve as a junior staff and she moved up and held managerial positions.　　 In 1997, she worked as a training consultant, whereby she began her career as professional trainer. 

 In October 1998, she accepted the position to work as a visiting professor for 18 months at Illinois Oak Brook McDonald's Hamburger University. When she returned from the United States in 2000, she was promoted to vice president of training. In this role, she unified a large number of different cultural practices, and transformed these practices into "seven habits." Seven months later, she was promoted to Training Manager in Restaurant Management for designing, developing and executing the new curriculum and performance development systems. In 2003, she was promoted to director of human resources and training, and she was in charge of managing human resource systems.