Dai Yi, a native of Changshu, Jiangsu Province, was born in September 1926. He is a CPC member, a professor, Honorary Director of the Institute of Qing History of the Renmin University of China, Director of the National Committee for the Compilation of Qing History and President of the Beijing Municipal Institute for Culture and History. He was Director of the Institute of Qing History, Director of the Department of History and Curator of the Library at the Renmin University of China. He was engaged as a researcher of the CCICH in February 2011.