Smart Globalization - In the Age of China and India 

Keynote Speaker Bio

Haiyan Wang
Co-Founder, China India Institute
Co-Author, The Quest for Global Dominance
Co-author, Getting China and India Right

Haiyan Wang is Managing Partner of China India Institute, a research and consulting organization with a focus on creating winning global strategies that leverage the transformational rise of China and India. She is responsible for overseeing the organization’s strategic direction, research and consulting focus, and all program activities.

She is the co-author of the highly praised books – Getting China and India Right (Jossey-Bass /John Wiley, February 2009) and The Quest for Global Dominance (Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 2008). Her opinion pieces have appeared in top international media such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economic Times, China Daily, The Times of India, Industry Today as well as the CHIEF EXECUTIVE magazine.

A native of China, Ms. Wang has spent the last twenty years consulting for and managing multinational business operations in China and the United States in several different industry sectors. Drawing on her broad international experience, she consults with clients and speaks at conferences on building and exploiting global presence, especially in China.

Ms. Wang was among the first batch of Chinese to study international business shortly after China embarked on economic reforms and opened its doors to the outside world. In the mid-1980s, she published several papers on China’s foreign trade reform in Chinese journals such as International Business and International Trade Tribune.

In the late 1980s, Ms. Wang worked for China Minmetals Corporation, one of the top 20 largest enterprises in China and a Fortune Global 500 company. At Minmetals, she was responsible for importing steel to supply China’s auto, petrochemical, and appliance industries.

In the United States, Ms. Wang began her career working as a management consultant with Princeton, NJ based Kepner-Tregoe, Inc.. She was responsible for facilitating strategic decision-making, complex project management, and organizational process redesign. Her clients included some of the largest corporations in the U.S. and Asia including Johnson & Johnson, Corning, Sprint, and the Singapore-based Far East Ship Yard. Ms. Wang also served as Director of Business Development at E-Steel Corporation, a New York based pioneer in e-marketplace in the global steel industry. At E-Steel, she led the company’s efforts to form partnerships between the company and top Chinese steel producers such as Baosteel. Ms. Wang also served as a senior marketing and operations executive at PTI Inc., a global manufacturer and wholesaler of home décor products with supply chain operations in the US, China and Vietnam. She helped to realign the company's strategic focus to service top retail chains such as Target, IKEA, Kohl’s, and J.C. Penney.

Ms. Wang received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade and a master’s degree in International Business from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. She also holds an M.B.A. from The University of Maryland at College Park. Ms. Wang currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband and twin daughters, Anjali (a Sanskrit/Hindi name which means “tribute”) and Meili (a Chinese name which means “beautiful”).