Founder & President, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)

Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), the leading Chinese think tank that ranked 64th worldwide; In addition, he is Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation under Ministry of Commerce; a Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and a Director of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, both 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. He was once in charge of Chinese companies going global at the then Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in the early 1980s ; he also worked as Chief Trade Representative for the Quebec Government Office in Hong Kong and Greater China, Managing Director of Asia at SNC-Lavalin, and Vice President at AMEC-AGRA in Canada and an expert for World Bank, IOM and ILO. He has published nearly 100 books in both Chinese and English on global trade and investment, international relations, global governance etc.