Susan Li

Li was born in Chengdu, China, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 2. She spent much of her childhood in the suburb of Lake Oswego, Oregon, right near Portland, Oregon, where her father was a professor. She started high school at 11, and attended Stanford University at 15, where she studied Economics and Mathematical and Computational Sciences.

She started working at Morgan Stanley at 19, on the trading floor, after she graduated, becoming one of the youngest employees. She moved to the company then called Facebook not long after, in 2008, in its early days.

Soon, she helped to lead the Facebook IPO before becoming Vice President of Finance in 2016. During that time, she listed both of Meta's CFOs, David Ebersman and David Wehner, as mentors. In November 2022, she was selected as CFO.

As CFO, Meta massively increased spending related to AI and cut spending on the Metaverse in favor of AI. She has also been a major player in Reality Labs's pivot to Wearables, though she has clarified that VR is still an area of interest.

In 2025, she also clarified Mark Zuckerberg's pledge to invest $600 billion in the US as being the "total envelope", including employees, offices, and all other U.S.-based activities.

Since 2024, Li has served on the board of directors of the biomedical research non-profit Arc Institute.