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WANG Yong is Professor at School of International Studies, and the Director of the Center for International Political Economy at Peking University. He is also Professor at Party School of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and Visiting Chevalier Chair Professor at the Institute of Asian Research(IAR), University of British Columbia(UBC) and a former consultant of the Asia Development Bank (ADB). He is the Selected Member, Ministry of Education of China New Century Outstanding Talents Support Program, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Global Trade and FDI, the Evian Group@IMD’s Brains Trust, Board of Directors at Center for Regional Security Studies at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Think20 (a Network of G20 Think tanks);  Commissioner of the First Murdoch Commission(on Australia and Asia) and Asia Pacific Regional Trade Architecture Commission (organized by Asia Society, USA); and Senior Fellow with Renmin University Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies(RDCY). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Global Asia, the Journal of Global Governance and the Journal of Human Security.

Yong Wang received his B.A.(1987, Law and International Politics), M.A.(1990, Law and IP), and PhD(1996, Law) from Peking University. He joined the faculty of Peking University School of International Studies in 1990. He studied at the Nanjing Center of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the Johns Hopkins University, 1988-1989. He was a visiting scholar at University of California San Diego, 1994－1995; a joint visiting fellow at Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) and University of Southern California, 1999; and a visiting scholar at National Chengchi University, Taiwan (2002), Indiana University Bloomington(2011), the Waterloo Canada-based Center for International Governance Innovation(CIGI, 2011), the University of Sheffield(2014) and the University of British Columbia(August-September 2014).

His major authored books include International Political Economy in China: A Global Conversation(co-edited with Greg Chin and Margaret Pearson, Routledge, 2015) , the Political Economy of International Trade (China Market Press, 2008); the Political Economy of China-U.S. Trade Relations (China Market Press, 2007), the Rounds of Most Favored Nations: the Politics of US-China Trade Relations, 1989-1997(Central Translation Press, 1998); Knowledge Economy: Cases and Prospects (editor, China Labor Press, 1998) , and American Politics and Making of Foreign Policy(co-authored, Peking University Press, 2007), and The European Union’s Engagement with Transnational Policy Networks(co-edited with Stephen Kingah and Vivien Schmidt, Routledge, 2016). His recent articles appear in the journals of Review of International Political Economy(USA), Oxford Review of Economic Policy(UK), Pacific Review(UK), Global Asia(Korea), China Security(USA), Asian Survey(USA) and Contemporary Politics(UK), International Politics Quarterly and World Economy and Politics(Chinese, China).

He has published numerous papers and book chapters in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Spanish, on the topics of Chinese political economy, foreign policy, China-US relations, regional cooperation, international political economy, World Trade Organization (WTO) and global governance. His authored book–the Political Economy of China-US Trade Relations–was awarded the first prize for Excellent Social Sciences Works, by the Beijing Municipal Government and the Beijing Confederation of Social Scientists, 2008.

Prof. Yong WANG has been invited to speak before or attend conferences organized by some international institutions, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of California Los Angeles, Tokyo University, Waseda University and Keio University in Japan, ISEAD, University of Sheffield, University of Nottingham, US-China Business Council, French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), German Association of Industry and Commerce, Chatham House in UK, Japan Self-Defense Agency, Korea Ministry of Justice，Korean Academy of Korean Studies, Salzburg Seminar in Austria, the Marcelino Botin Foundation of Spain, the Bahrain Global Forum, WTO, World Economic Forum, the Lowy Institute for International Policy,Think20 (under G20 Russian, Australian and Turkish Presidency) and International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development(ICTSD), University of British Columbia, University of Toronto and University of Waterloo. His opinion or comments have appeared in medias such as CNN, BBC, New York Times, Financial Times, Globe and Mail, NHK, SkyNews, China Central Television Station（CCTV）and so on. He was a speaker at Think20 meetings under the Russian, Australian and Turkish G20 presidency.