Haiyan Wang Speaker Biography
Thinkers50 Hall of Fame Global Strategist, Managing Partner, China India Institute, and International Expert on China, India, Emerging Markets and Globalization
Keynote Speaker Haiyan Wang at a Glance
- Managing Partner and co-founder of the China India Institute, a research and advisory organization focused on the transformational rise of emerging markets, foremost China and India, and the implications for global business.
- Inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2024 with Dr. Anil K. Gupta for three decades at the forefront of analyzing globalization trends.
- Ranked by Thinkers50 among the world’s most influential management thinkers, including #28 in 2017 and #25 in 2019; previously named “On the Guru Radar.”
- Shortlisted for Thinkers50’s Global Village Award and Strategy Award and named a “New Guru” by The Economic Times.
- Co-author of influential books including The Silk Road Rediscovered, Getting China and India Right, and The Quest for Global Dominance.
- International keynote speaker who has addressed Summer Davos, TEDx, The Economist, Brookings Institution, Asia Society, Global Peter Drucker Forum events, and corporate audiences around the world.
Global Strategy Expert on China, India and Emerging Markets
Haiyan Wang is Managing Partner and co-founder of the China India Institute, a research and advisory organization focused on the transformational rise of emerging markets—foremost China and India—and the implications for companies, investors and other key stakeholders. A native of China with decades of international business experience, Wang is recognized globally for her expertise on China, India, emerging markets, globalization and global strategy. Her perspective combines rigorous analysis with firsthand business experience. Long before China and India assumed their current importance in the global economy, Wang was studying how these markets would reshape international competition, innovation and corporate strategy. Today, she helps business leaders understand the rapidly changing economic, technological and geopolitical forces transforming Asia and the broader global marketplace.
Thinkers50 Hall of Fame Management Thinker
Wang has earned international recognition as one of the world’s influential management thinkers. She was ranked #28 on the Thinkers50 list in 2017 and #25 in 2019, and was again included in the ranking in 2021. Earlier, Thinkers50 identified her as “On the Guru Radar” and shortlisted her for its Global Village Award. She and longtime collaborator Dr. Anil K. Gupta were subsequently shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Strategy Award. In 2024, Wang and Gupta were inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, recognizing their three decades at the forefront of analyzing globalization and its implications for business. The Economic Times has also named Wang a “New Guru,” recognizing her forward-looking insights into China and India as major consumer markets, sources of innovation and increasingly powerful forces in the world economy.
China India Institute
As Managing Partner of the China India Institute, Wang focuses on the strategic implications of the rise of China, India and other emerging economies. Her work helps corporate leaders assess global trends, understand changing competitive dynamics and identify opportunities and risks created by shifts in economic power.
Before co-founding the China India Institute in 2007, Wang spent more than 20 years consulting for and managing multinational business operations in China and the United States across several industries. She was among the early generation of Chinese professionals to study international business after China began its economic reforms and opened its economy to the outside world.
This combination of firsthand experience in China and the United States gives Wang a valuable perspective on the relationship between Western businesses and Asian markets. She addresses not only economic trends but also the cultural, strategic, technological and geopolitical forces executives need to understand when operating across borders.
China, Asia and the Future of Globalization
Wang’s expertise has become increasingly relevant as companies navigate a world defined by U.S.-China competition, geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption, changing supply chains and Asia’s growing economic influence. Her work examines China’s future, the changing relationship between China and the West, the rise of Asia, emerging-market multinationals and the evolution of globalization itself. Rather than viewing globalization simply through the movement of physical goods, Wang has also explored the increasing importance of digital connectivity, data, services and knowledge in creating a new form of global economic integration. These themes are reflected throughout her current keynote portfolio.
Award-Winning Author
Wang is co-author of three highly regarded books on global strategy and emerging markets: The Silk Road Rediscovered, Getting China and India Right, and The Quest for Global Dominance. Getting China and India Right received the 2009 Axiom Business Book Awards Silver Prize as one of the leading books on globalization and international business. Through her books and research, Wang has examined how China and India function not only as enormous consumer markets, but also as centers for innovation, sources of global talent and launching pads for increasingly formidable international competitors.
Global Business Author and Media Commentator
Wang has written for Harvard Business Review and has served as a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek. Her commentary and opinion pieces have appeared in international media including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Chief Executive, Wired, The Economic Times, China Daily, The Times of India, and South China Morning Post. She has also been interviewed by CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, India Today, CCTV, CNN Expansión, INSEAD Knowledge and other international business media. She previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD.
Haiyan Wang Keynote Speaker
Haiyan Wang is an internationally sought-after keynote speaker who brings a rare combination of strategic expertise, firsthand business experience and an insider’s understanding of China to audiences around the world. She has addressed major conferences including Summer Davos, TEDx, The Economist, Brookings Institution, Asia Society and Global Peter Drucker Forum events, as well as corporate forums throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Her most recent Speakers.com blurb documents this extensive international speaking experience. Her keynote presentations address some of the most consequential issues facing global business leaders today, including China’s future, U.S.-China relations, Asia’s rise, emerging markets, geopolitical risk, digital globalization, global megatrends and cultivating a global mindset. Wang translates complex international developments into clear strategic implications, helping executives understand where the global economy is headed and what those changes mean for their organizations. For corporations, associations, financial organizations and executive audiences seeking an authoritative perspective on China, India, Asia, emerging markets and the future of globalization, Wang provides both global insight and practical strategic relevance. Haiyan Wang can be booked for keynote speaking engagements, executive programs and corporate events through Speakers.com.
Haiyan Wang Speaking Topics
China 2030: What Lies Ahead
Wang examines China’s continuing economic, demographic, technological and geopolitical transformation and what its changing role in the world means for multinational companies, investors and business leaders. Her analysis explores slower economic growth alongside rising prosperity, demographic pressures, technology and automation, sustainability, and China’s increasingly complex relationship with Western powers.
China and the West: Competition or Cooperation?
Wang analyzes the evolving relationship between China and the United States and other Western powers, exploring economic competition, geopolitical tensions, technology, trade and the implications for multinational corporations and investors.
Global Game Changers: Mega-Trends Reshaping the Global Economy
Wang examines the forces transforming the global economy, including economic restructuring, digitization, geopolitical risk, climate pressures, inequality and the transformation of jobs and work. She translates these megatrends into practical implications for companies, investors and leaders.
The Future of Globalization – Connected by Bits, Not Atoms
Challenging predictions about the “end of globalization,” Wang argues that globalization is being transformed rather than disappearing. She explores the shift from traditional trade in physical goods toward increasingly powerful flows of data, digital services, knowledge and intellectual property—and what this new era means for global companies and investors.
Asia’s Next Chapter: Implications for Multinationals
Wang explores Asia’s continuing movement toward the center of the global economy and its growing importance as a consumer market, innovation and R&D hub, source of capital and home to increasingly formidable global competitors. She examines the opportunities and risks this transformation creates for multinational companies.
Getting China and India Right
Based on solid data and rich examples, Wang illustrates that China and India are the only two countries in the world that simultaneously constitute four game-changing realities: mega-markets for almost every product and service, platforms to dramatically reduce a company’s global cost structure, platforms to significantly boost a company’s global technology and innovation base, and springboards for the emergence of new fearsome global competitors. This talk outlines how companies can leverage the market and the resource opportunities presented by the China and India phenomenon to achieve global dominance within their particular industries.
Haiyan Wang Books
The Silk Road Rediscovered: How Indian and Chinese Companies Are Becoming Globally Stronger by Winning in Each Other’s Markets
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The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage
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Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World’s Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage
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Haiyan Wang Speaker Testimonials
“You gave an outstanding presentation to the Board and Management Team. I have heard a number of presentations on China in the past, but yours was the best I have heard.”
- Chairman, President and CEO, Leading U.S. Steel Manufacturer |
“The response we’ve had so far has been very positive, not only to your talk but from the many conversations you were able to have with the attendees. The only comment is that they wished there was more time to explore, which is great.”
- Executive Committee Member, Global Business Forum, Canada |
“Thank you Haiyan, I think your presentation was among the strongest we’ve had from a speaker at our Annual Conferences, in terms of both content and delivery.”
- Director of Services and Technology, NFPA |
“Haiyan, you delivered an outstanding presentation that provided the audience with a fresh and deep insight into the Chinese economy and the key factors that Latin-American companies must consider to succeed there. Our audience (more than 2000 at the conference) rated you as the 2nd best keynote speaker.”
- Andres Franco, Executive Director, CLG |
