Huiyao Wang is founder and president of one of China’s top independent think tanks, the Center for China and Globalization. He received his MBA from the University of Windsor in 1985, and a PhD in international business and global management from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Manchester.

He was a senior fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

He is currently dean of the Institute of Development Studies of China’s Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.

Early in his career, Wang served with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, overseeing the international expansion of Chinese companies, and he has worked as Quebec’s chief trade representative in Hong Kong and China.

Wang has published more than 70 books, and hundreds of articles and papers in Chinese and English on global trade, governance, migration, Chinese inbound and outbound investment, Chinese diasporas and Chinese think tanks.

He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, such as the Davos World Economic Forum and the Paris Peace Forum, and was named one of the most influential people in 2018 by China Newsweek magazine.

“China seeks to safeguard and enhance the liberal international order, not threaten it. Cooperation should be our common objective to promote multilateral global order so as to create peace and prosperity to benefit the world.”