Haiyan Wang is managing partner of the China India Institute. She has also been an adjunct professor of strategy at INSEAD. Prior to co-founding China India Institute, Ms Wang spent more than 15 years consulting for and managing multinational business operations in China and the United States in several different industry sectors.

She has been listed by Thinkers50 in On the Guru Radar and short-listed for the 2011 Global Village Award. She has also been named a New Guru by The Economic Times. Ms Wang co-writes a regular column for Bloomberg Businessweek and blogs for Harvard Business Review. She is the co-author of three highly acclaimed books: The Silk Road Rediscovered, The Quest for Global Dominance, and Getting China and India Right (which received the 2009 Axiom Book Awards’ silver prize as one of the world’s two best books on globalisation and international business).

She received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. She also holds two graduate degrees—one from the University of International Business and Economics in China and the other from the University of Maryland at College Park in the United States.