Dr. Wang Huiyao (Henry)  is Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a Counselor to China State Council. In addition, he is Professor and Dean of the Institute of Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China, Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), Vice Chairman, China Talent Research Society, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and 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, and a member of Advisory Committee of the Center for Global Competence Development, Tsinghua University.

Dr. Wang pursued his PhD degree at University of Western Ontario and University of Manchester. He was a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has taught at Peking University, Tsinghua University and Richard Ivey Business School as an adjunct professor, and authored and edited over 80 books in both Chinese and English on global relations, global governance, global migration, China outbound and inbound investment and trade, Chinese Diasporas and Chinese think tanks etc.