Huiyao WANG

Bio

Dr. Huiyao (Henry) Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), the leading Chinese non-governmental think tank that ranked 64th worldwide. He was appointed as Counselor to China State Council by Premier in 2015. In addition, he is Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation, Vice Chairman of China Public Relations Association; a Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and a Director of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, both organizations under the supervision of Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and the Dean of Institute of Development Studies of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics of China. Currently, he is a Steering Committee Member of the Paris Peace Forum and Metropolis International and also sits on the Advisory Board of Duke Kunshan University and Richard Ivey Business School.

Dr. Wang pursued his PhD studies at University of Western Ontario and University of Manchester. He was a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, a Visiting Fellow of Brookings Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, and a Policy Fellow of IZA Institute of Labour Economics. He served as an expert for World Bank, IOM and ILO. As a thought leader on global affairs, global governance, global migration, global investment etc., he has published nearly 100 works, including China and Globalization Series pulished by Springer Nature 2021.