Dan Wang

Dan Wang is the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, the Beijing-based economics research firm. Wang has focused on understanding China's technology progress — based in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai — over the last six years, becoming one of the most cited experts on China and technology. His work at Gavekal has covered China's technology capabilities, U.S. regulatory actions on export controls, as well as multinational investment activities in China. He is based in New Haven while on research leave from Gavekal.

Wang’s essays have been published in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, the Financial Times, and Bloomberg. He is a frequent speaker to both companies and policymakers. Wang studied philosophy at the University of Rochester and previously worked in Silicon Valley. At the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, Wang is working on a book, to be published by W. W. Norton, on China's vision of the technological future.