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Haiyan Wang
Managing Partner, China India Institute | Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2024 | Adjunct Professor of Strategy, INSEAD | Co-author, 3 Books
Haiyan Wang is one of the world's foremost authorities on China, India, and the strategic shifts reshaping the global order. Managing Partner of the China India Institute, inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2024, and Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, she has spent three decades helping multinationals build winning strategies in the world's fastest-growing and most consequential emerging markets.
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Haiyan Wang biography
Haiyan Wang is one of the world’s most respected voices on global strategy, the rise of emerging markets, and the geopolitical forces reshaping the international business order. A native of China who was among the first cohort of Chinese nationals to study international business after China opened its economy in the 1980s, she has spent three decades at the intersection of rigorous research and senior advisory work, helping multinational companies navigate the complexities of operating in and around the world’s two most consequential growth economies.
As a global strategy speaker, Wang is Managing Partner of the China India Institute, a Washington DC-based research and advisory organization focused on the strategic implications of China and India’s rise for global business, investment, and policy. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. In 2024, she was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame, one of the most significant recognitions in global management thinking, placing her among a small group of thinkers whose work has had lasting influence on how organizations understand and respond to the world. She was previously ranked among Thinkers50’s top 25 most influential management thinkers worldwide and named a “New Guru” by The Economic Times.
Wang is the co-author of three books that have shaped how senior executives approach global strategy. Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World’s Fastest Growing Economies for Global Advantage (Jossey-Bass/Wiley) received the 2009 Axiom Business Book Awards Silver Prize as one of the world’s two best books on globalization and international business. The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2nd edition) remains a core reference on global corporate strategy. The Silk Road Rediscovered: How Indian and Chinese Companies Are Becoming Globally Stronger by Winning in Each Other’s Markets (Jossey-Bass/Wiley) examines the bilateral strategic relationship between the two economies from a corporate perspective.
Six Mega-Trends and a Career Built on Foresight
Wang has been a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek. She speaks at the World Economic Forum’s Summer Davos, TEDx, the Economist Conference, the Brookings Institution, the Asia Society, and the Global Peter Drucker Forum. Her current research focuses on six mega-trends redefining the global economic landscape: the restructuring of trade and investment patterns amid strategic de-risking, AI-enabled digitization across industries, heightened geopolitical volatility and fragmentation, the climate crisis and the race toward green energy, the reconfiguration of supply chains, and the accelerating rise of the Global South.
As a speaker, Haiyan Wang gives senior audiences something that is genuinely rare: a view of the global strategic landscape from someone who has studied it with scholarly depth, advised boards and governments on it for three decades, and lived it from the inside as a Chinese national who has operated at the highest levels of international business. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to book Haiyan Wang for your next event.
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Haiyan Wang Keynote Topics
The pace of global change in this decade will exceed even the most transformative shifts of the past 25 years. In this forward-looking keynote, Wang maps the six mega-trends currently redrawing the global economic order: the restructuring of trade and investment patterns amid strategic de-risking, AI-enabled digitization transforming entire industries, heightened geopolitical volatility and fragmentation, the climate crisis and the race toward green energy, the reconfiguration of global supply chains, and the accelerating rise of the Global South. She examines how these trends interact to create new winners and losers among nations, companies, investors, and individuals, and gives senior audiences the strategic frameworks to navigate their implications.
China is no longer simply an opportunity or a threat for Western multinationals — it is both simultaneously, and the calculus for how to engage with it has never been more complex. Wang draws on three decades of research and advisory work to give boards, C-suites, and government audiences the most nuanced and grounded account available of how China is evolving internally, how Beijing is thinking about its global relationships, and what the strategic options are for organizations that cannot afford to ignore a market of that scale but cannot afford the risks of uncritical engagement. A keynote built for senior decision-makers operating in the world as it actually is rather than as they wish it were.
The simultaneous rise of China and India as major global economic powers is the most significant structural shift in the world economy since the Industrial Revolution. Yet most multinational companies have approached the two markets sequentially and tactically rather than together and strategically. Wang draws on her award-winning book and decades of senior advisory experience to present a framework for what a genuine dual-engine China-India strategy looks like: how the two markets are similar, how they are profoundly different, where the competitive dynamics between Indian and Chinese companies are creating global disruption, and how smart multinationals are using each market to strengthen their position in the other.
The era of seamless globalization is over. In its place is a more fragmented, geopolitically contested world in which the rules of global competition are being rewritten in real time. Wang examines what this means for corporate strategy: how to build supply chain resilience without forfeiting efficiency, how to navigate diverging regulatory environments across major markets, how to think about market presence in countries that are simultaneously partners and rivals, and how the leading global companies of the next decade will differ from those that dominated the last one. A strategic reorientation keynote for organizations that are still trying to apply globalization-era frameworks to a post-globalization reality.
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FAQs on Booking Haiyan Wang
Why Haiyan Wang?
Haiyan Wang is the rare keynote speaker who can hold a board's attention on China, India, and the global economic order with research credibility no marketing-deck speaker can match. As a 2024 Thinkers50 Hall of Fame inductee, an INSEAD adjunct professor, and a consultancy founder whose work has been cited across HBR, the WSJ, the FT, and Bloomberg, she brings a level of analytic depth that pairs well with audiences that ask hard questions. Her three books, including the Axiom-winning Getting China and India Right, anchor the keynote in primary research rather than headline reaction. Book Haiyan Wang through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring a serious, strategy-grade view of the global economy to your next event.
What is the China India Institute?
The China India Institute is a Washington, DC-based research consultancy that Haiyan Wang co-founded with Anil K. Gupta in 2007. The Institute studies the rise of China and India as global economic powers and advises multinational corporations, investors, and policy organizations on the strategic implications of that rise. Its research spans market entry, competitive dynamics with emerging-market multinationals, technology and innovation policy, and the geopolitical environment that increasingly shapes commercial decisions.
What did Haiyan Wang predict about Asia's economic rise?
Across three books and decades of research, Haiyan Wang has argued that Asia's share of global GDP would continue to compound past the U.S. and European share, that emerging-market multinationals would compete with and acquire Western incumbents rather than remain national champions, and that digital globalization would continue to grow even if physical-goods trade reorganized. Those theses have largely played out, which is part of why she remains a frequently cited voice on networks like CNBC, Fox Business, and CNN.
What topics does global strategy speaker Haiyan Wang cover?
Haiyan Wang speaks on global strategy and the reconfiguration of the international economic order, China and India as strategic priorities and competitive threats, navigating geopolitical fragmentation and de-risking, the six mega-trends reshaping global business, emerging market strategy for multinationals, and the future of globalization in an era of great power competition. She presents at the World Economic Forum, TEDx, the Economist Conference, the Brookings Institution, and major corporate forums in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and delivers in English and Mandarin. Aurum Speakers Bureau can advise on the right topic for your event and provide full details on Haiyan Wang's speaking fees and availability.
What is the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame?
The Thinkers50 Hall of Fame is an acknowledgment reserved for thinkers whose work has had lasting and demonstrable influence on management thinking and practice. It is distinct from the Thinkers50 biennial ranking, which identifies the world's most influential management thinkers at a given moment, and represents a more permanent recognition of sustained contribution to the field. Haiyan Wang was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2024, having previously been ranked among Thinkers50's top 25 most influential management thinkers worldwide. The designation places her among a small and select group of scholars and practitioners whose ideas have genuinely shaped how organizations around the world are led and managed.
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