Weihan Wang

Weihan Wang is the Baker Institute visiting Fulbright scholar for the year 2009-2010. He is the executive secretary-general of Research Center of Energy Economics (RCEE) and an associate professor of international business in the School of International Trade and Economics at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China. Wang’s research focuses on China’s oil industry-related policy issues, such as petroleum price reform, oil reserves and oil industry regulation. His current research interests include exploring the institutional defects of the international commodity markets, petrodollar and international monetary systems, international oil price analysis, fiscal policy evolution in oil producing countries, and China’s outward foreign direct investment in oil industry. In 2009, Wang and his assistants at RCEE successfully secured funding on the National Social Science Fund project “National Energy Security and Monopoly Regulation in China’s Oil Industry: A Vertical Integration Perspective.”

Wang has served as a consultant to China National Petroleum Corporation and its affiliates on oil industry and business management issues since 2007, and has been in close and regular contact with the oil circles in China. His articles are widely published in academic journals, and his commentaries on China’s domestic energy issues are often published on the Internet. Wang also writes editorials for the top Chinese financial newspapers, columns for professional energy magazines, and is frequently interviewed by the media. He received his M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics and his Ph.D. in international business from UIBE.