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Wang Huiyao

Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG)

Dr. Henry Huiyao WANG is the Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading Chinese non-governmental think tank accredited with United Nations Special Consultative Status and ranked 64th among think tanks worldwide in the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index (GGTTI) released by the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Wang is a former Counselor to the State Council of China (China’s Cabinet), appointed by the Premier of China. Currently, he serves as the Director General of the Alliance of Global Talent Organization (AGTO); as a Director of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and a Director of the China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, both under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China; as a Executive Director of China International Economic Relations Association (affiliated with the People’s Bank of China); a Distinguished Professor of China Foreign Affairs University; and as a Member of the Advisory Committee for Center for Global Competence Development at Tsinghua University. In addition, he is a Steering Committee Member of the Paris Peace Forum, and also sits on the Advisory Boards of Duke Kunshan University and the Richard Ivey Business School of Western University in Canada.

Dr. Wang previously served as Vice Chairman of the China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Ministry of Commerce; as Vice Chairman of the China Public Relations Association (CPRA); and as Professor and Dean of the Institute of Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.

Dr. Wang was an official with the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (now the Ministry of Commerce) of China, where he worked on China’s outbound investment policy. Later, in Canada, he was appointed by the Government of Quebec as Chief Trade Representative for the Quebec Government Office in Hong Kong and Greater China. His senior corporate experience includes serving as Managing Director for Asia at SNC-Lavalin and as Vice President of AMEC-Agra in Canada. He has also had extensive experience with international organizations, having served as an Advisory Board Member of the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM), as a World Bank expert, and as a Metropolitan Executive Committee Member.

After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Dr. Wang pursued MBA and PhD studies at the University of Windsor, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Manchester, where he obtained a PhD in International Management. He has been appointed Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and Policy Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labour Economics. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Peking University, Tsinghua University, China University of Political Science and Law, and the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey Business School.

Dr. Wang’s expertise spans China and globalization, global governance, international relations with a focus on US–China relations, global trade and investment, global migration, talent mobility, and diaspora studies. He is the author or editor of more than 100 books. His English-language publications include Escaping Thucydides’s Trap: Dialogue with Graham Allison on China-US Relations (Palgrave Macmillan 2023); The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World (Springer Nature 2022); Understanding New Geopolitics, World Economy, Global Issues and Global Governance: CCG Global Dialogues vol. 1&2 (Palgrave Macmillan 2022&2026); Handbook on China and Globalization; and the Springer China and Globalization Series. He also edited Consensus or Conflict?: China and Globalization in the 21st Century by Alistair Michie (Springer Nature, 2021), which won Springer Nature’s “Book of the Year” award in 2021.

Dr. Wang is also a prolific op-ed contributor. His commentaries regularly appear in South China Morning Post, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, The New York Times, China Daily, and Global Times. He is frequently interviewed by major global media outlets including BBC, CNN, CNBC, CNA, CGTN, NBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, and other major global media outlets.

Widely recognized outside China as a leading think tank voice and candid interlocutor on China’s domestic and foreign policy, Dr. Wang has been invited by leading global think tanks, including Brookings Institution, CSIS, Heritage Foundation, ASPI, CATO Institute, Hudson Institute, Wilson Center, AEI, RAND Corporation, Carter Center, and European institutions such as Bruegel, IFRI, ISPI, EPC, and CERRE, as well as Singapore’s RSIS and Indonesia’s FPCI, to participate in Track II dialogues and policy discussions. In 2021, he launched the CCG Global Dialogue Series, featuring renowned global thought leaders and policy experts such as Thomas Friedman, Graham Allison, Joseph Nye, John Thornton, Susan Thornton, Angus Deaton, Adam Posen, David M. Lampton, John Hamre, Wendy Cutler, Stephen Roach, Kishore Mahbubani, Pascal Lamy, Wolfgang Ischinger, Martin Wolf, Jim O’Neill, and others, with Jeffrey Sachs among upcoming speakers.

Dr. Wang is frequently invited to speak at major international forums, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Munich Security Conference, the Paris Peace Forum, the WTO Public Forum, the Munk Debates, the China Development Forum, the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, the Milken Global Conference, the Doha Forum, Sir Bani Yas Forum, he World Government Summit, the Delphi Economic Forum, the Athens Democracy Forum, the Bled Strategic Forum, and other prestigious international conferences, serving as one of the most prominent Chinese voices in global policy debates.

Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with World-leading Opinion Leaders

Jan. 16, 2026 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Michael Morris, Chavkin–Chang Professor of Leadership at Columbia Business School and Professor in the Psychology Department of Columbia University – Navigating Tribal Instincts for Connection Polarized World

Dec. 4, 2025 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Phelan United States Centre at the LSE – Making Sense of Trump’s Foreign Policy

July 25, 2025 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Ravi Agrawal, Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy – Front-Row Beijing: Foreign Policy Perspectives

July 18, 2025 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Zhao Suisheng, Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs University of Denver – From Trump 1.0 to 2.0: China-US Relations

March 7, 2025 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Keppe Kofod, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark – The Rapidly Evolving Geopolitical Changes Currently Facing the World

October 21, 2024 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with William C. Kirby, T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University – The Modern University and China-US Education Exchanges

May 31, 2024 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Stephen S. Roach, Senior Research Scholar of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, The Global Economic Outlook and its Implications for China

Feb. 22, 2024 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times – Outlook on the Global Economy in an Era of Remained Integration

Nov. 13, 2023 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Noah M. Pickus, Associate Provost at Duke University – The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century

Nov. 3th, 2023 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Arancha González, former Foreign Minister of Spain and Dean of Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po

August 2nd, 2023 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Harvard Prof. William Kirby – Enhancing Higher Education and National Global Influence

April 28th, 2023 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Harvard Professor Joseph Nye – Implications for US-China Competition

April 4th, 2023 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Dr. Justin Vaïsse, Founder and Director-General of Paris Peace Forum

Jan. 10, 2023 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Ray Dalio, Founder of Bridgewater; Associates Author of Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order – The quest for great power cooperation in a changing world order: Principles for navigating the Big Cycles

September 30, 2022 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with C Fred. Bergsten, Nonresident Senior Fellow and director emeritus at the Peterson Institute for International Economics – What’s next for the Global Economic Leadership amid rising US-China Tensions?

May 18, 2022 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Wolfgang Ischinger, Former Chair of the Munich Security Conference – China, Germany, and Europe in an uncertain time: A conversation on the intersection of diplomacy and business

Mar 26, 2022 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Jason Furman and Zhiwu Chen – “US-China Economic Relations in Unstable Time – Challenges and Opportunities Ahead”

Mar 3, 2022 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Graham T. Allison-“The Future of Great Power Relations: How Can the U.S. and China Co-exist?”

Jan 26, 2022 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Lawrence H. Summers – “Lawrence H. Summers on Global Economy and SINO-US Relations”

Jan 18, 2022 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Kishore Mahbubani, Kent E Calder and Kerry Brown – “The Rise of Asia and its Implications for an Increasingly Multipolar World”

Dec 8, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Yale Economist Stephen S. Roach – “Changing reality of China-US relations, its global impact and future development”

Dec 7, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with CSIS President John Hamre – “Think tanks and American foreign policy”

Dec 2, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Lord Jim O’Neill, coiner of the BRIC acronym, and Leslie Maasdorp, VP and CFO at the NDB – “20 years on: The future of the BRICs and globalization”

Nov 23, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with JHU Professor David M. Lampton – “Future of BRI and B3W: Competition or Collaboration?”

Oct 18, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Founding Dean of LKY School of NUS, Prof. KishJore Mahbubani – “China, globalization and the multipolar world in post-pandemic times”

Sept 6, 2021 – Dialogue between Wang Huiyao and The Carter Center – CEO Paige Alexander and Senior Advisor for China, Liu Yawei – “Jimmy Carter Legacy and Lessons for Moral Leadership”

Aug 30, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Neil Bush, founder of the Bush China Foundation and David Firestein, the foundation’s President and CEO – “50 Years of US-China Exchange in Retrospect: The Bush Legacy and Beyond”

August 2, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Pascal Lamy and Wendy Cutler – “The multilateral trading system in changing global context”

August 1, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Susan Thornton and Ronnie C. Chan – “New Realities of China-US Relations”

July 30, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with John L. Thornton, J Stapleton Roy, Adam Posen, Zhu Guangyao – “Balancing competition and cooperation amid global challenges: What’s next for US-China relations?”

May 28, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Yale Historian Valerie Hansen – “How globalization has changed human society”

May 13, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Nobel prize-winning economist Sir Angus Deaton and Prof. Anne Case from Princeton University – “Understanding inequality in a globalizing world: lessons for the 21st century”

May 12, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Financial Times’ Chief Economics Commentator Martin Wolf – “China and the world in an era of crisis and renewal”

April 30, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Harvard Professor Anthony Saich – “China-US relations at a crossroads”

April 28, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Harvard Professor Joseph S. Nye Jr. – “Power narratives in a changing world: implications for US-China co-operative rivalry”

April 6, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Harvard Professor Graham Allison and Li Chen – “Destined for rival partnership? US-China coopetition in changing reality”

March 29, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Thomas Friedman – “The future of globalization: a flatter and deeper world?”

Mar 2, 2021 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue with Prof. Kerry Brown from King’s College London – “Moving forward into new future: China and the world in the upcoming two sessions”

Nov 11, 2020 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue among Kerry Brown, He Yafei, Wolfgang Ischinger and Pascal Lamy – “Reviving Globalization and Multilateralism: Choices for Sino-European Relations in 2021 and Beyond”

Nov 11, 2020 – Wang Huiyao in Dialogue among Graham Allison, Ronnie C. Chan, Thomas Friedman, John Thornton and Zhu Guangyao – “US Forum | Globalization at Crossroads: US Election and Its Impact on China and the World”

Publications

English Books

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2026), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: China and Global Governance in the 21st Century, Springer Nature (forthcoming).

Huiyao Wang (2026), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: China and the Next Global Order: Coming Multipolar World and Great-Power Coopetition, Springer Nature (forthcoming).

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2026), Editors of CCG Global Dialogues Book Series: Understanding New Geopolitics, World Economy, Global Issues and Global Governance, CCG Global Dialogues Vol. 2, Springer Nature (forthcoming).

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2025), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: Global Development and Cooperation with China: New Ideas, Policies and Initiatives for a Changing World, Springer Nature.

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2024), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: Enhancing Global Governance in a Fragmented World: Prospects, Issues, and the Role of China, Springer Nature.

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2024), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: The Future of China’s Development and Globalization: Views from Ambassadors to China, Springer Nature.

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2024), Telling China’s Story to the World (Arabic Edition), Wisdom Publishing, UAE.

Huiyao Wang (2023), Escaping Thucydides’s Trap: Dialogue with Graham Allison on China–US Relations, Palgrave Macmillan.

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2023), Editors: Insight: China in a Changing World, Foreign Languages Press.

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2023), Editors of Chinese Enterprise Globalization Book Series: Strategies for Chinese Enterprises Going Global, Springer Nature.

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2023), Editors of Chinese Enterprise Globalization Book Series: The Challenge of “Going Out”: Chinese Experiences in Outbound Investment, Springer Nature.

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao(2022), Editors of CCG Global Dialogues Book Series: Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century, Palgrave Macmillan

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao(2022), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World, Springer Nature Publishing Group

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao(2022), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: China and the World in a Changing Context – Perspectives from Ambassadors to China, Springer Nature Publishing Group

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao(2022), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: Transition and Opportunity – Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future, Springer Nature Publishing Group

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao(2022), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: The Asian 21st Century by Kishore Mahbubani, Springer Nature Publishing Group

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao(2021), Editors of China and Globalization Book Series: Consensus or Conflict? China and Globalization in the 21st Century co-edited by Huiyao Wang & Alistair Michie, Springer Nature Publishing Group

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2020), The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises: Trends and Characteristics, Springer

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2019), Handbook on China and Globalization, Edward Elgar, United Kingdom

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2019), China’s Domestic and International Migration Development, Springer

Lu Miao & Huiyao Wang (2017), International Migration of China, Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration, Springer

Huiyao Wang & Lu Miao (2016), China Goes Global: How China’s Overseas Investment is Transforming Its Business Enterprises, Palgrave Macmillan, London, England

Huiyao Wang & Yipeng Liu (2016), Entrepreneurship and Talent Management from a Global Perspective: Global Returnees, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom

Huiyao Wang & Yue Bao (2015), Reverse Migration in Contemporary China – Returnees, Entrepreneurship and the Chinese Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, London, England

Huiyao Wang (2012): Globalizing China: The Influence, Strategies and Successes of Chinese Returnees, Emerald Publishing, United Kingdom

Wenxian Zhang, Huiyao Wang & Alon Ilon (2011): Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China: The Chinese Returnees Who Have Shaped Modern China, Emerald Publishing, United Kingdom

Contributed to Paul W. (1988): Multinational Joint Ventures in Developing Countries, New York: Routledge

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