Kaiyuan (Bill) Wang

Biography

Kaiyuan (Bill) Wang, a Center Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, is a Boston area-based civic entrepreneur, cultural organizer, philanthropist, and institution builder whose work focuses on global dialogue, higher education, cross-cultural understanding, governance, and U.S.-China relations.

Mr. Wang previously served on the Strategic Development Committee of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is the founder of the WKW Foundation at Columbia University and the Kaiyuan Wang Fund at Harvard University. He has held affiliations with a number of leading academic institutions in the United States and China, including Stanford University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Tsinghua University, and Peking University. He previously served as Director of International Development in the Office of the President at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Mr. Wang is also the Founder and Chairman of the Governance Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to global dialogue, civic education, cross-cultural understanding, and institutional innovation, and he is the Founder and Executive Director of University Forum, an intellectual and cultural platform that has organized more than 300 lectures and public dialogues over the past decade.

Mr. Wang has been active in civic, policy, and cultural institutions, including service with the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Through his philanthropic, academic, and civic work, he seeks to build enduring platforms for dialogue between China and the United States, between universities and public life, and between ideas, institutions, and global communities.