Global Photonics Economic Forum 2024

About the Speaker

Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG) the leading Chinese non-governmental think tank among Top 100 in the world. In addition, he is the former Counselor to China State Council; Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce; 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; the Dean of Institute of Development Studies of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics of China, and a member of Advisory Committee for Global Competence Development of Tsinghua University. Currently, he is a Steering Committee Member of Paris Peace Forum and also sits on the Advisory Board of Duke Kunshan University and Richard Ivey Business School.
Dr. Wang was once in charge of Chinese companies going global at the then Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and then 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; He also had extensive experiences in international organizations, having served as Advisory Board Member of UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), and an advisory expert for the World Bank and the Alliance of Global Talent Organization (AGTO).
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, and a Senior Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. As a thought leader on global relations, international business, global governance, talent migration, global investment and trade, Chinese Diasporas and Chinese think tanks etc., he has published nearly 100 works, including Escaping Thucydides’s Trap: Dialogue with Graham Allison on China-US Relations(Springer, 2023); CCG Global Dialogues(2022); and he is the editor (https://www.springer.com/series/16735) of Springer Nature’s China and Globalization Series: The Ebb and Flow of Globalization: Chinese Perspectives on China’s Development and Role in the World; China and the World in a Changing Context - Perspectives from Ambassadors to China, Transition and Opportunity - Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China’s Future(Springer Nature, 2022), Consensus or Conflict: China and Globalization in the 21st Century (Springer Nature, 2021); The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises: Trends and Characteristics (Springer, 2020) etc.
Dr. Wang is a frequent speaker at international events such as the World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, Paris Peace Forum, WTO Public Forum, Munk Debate, Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, and Milken Global Forum. He is also a frequent contributing writer for the op-eds to South China Morning Post, Financial Times, Bloomberg, New York Times and others.