Dan Wang Keynote Speaker

Dan Wang is a technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, a global macro research firm that provides in-depth coverage of China’s economy, politics, and social issues.

His research focuses largely on China’s technology capabilities, multinational investments activities in China and US technology controls. Having worked in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, Dan has a keen understanding of China’s technology progress especially in the semiconductors space and its broad industrial policy.

He studies the impact of US regulatory actions that includes tracking US measures on CFIUS and export controls and is an expert on supply chain relocation and asset management. Dan Wang has been invited as a keynote speaker for a multitude of organisations that range from financial institutions to NGOs.

He speaks with authority on topics such as China’s tech revolution and the US-China competition in the areas of technological innovation and manufacturing. Dan provides powerful insights into the process knowledge China has gained over the years and every year he publishes a letter about what China can do and how she does it.

Dan is currently a visiting scholar at the Yale Law School’s Tsai China Center where he is working on a monograph on China’s vision for the technological future.

An occasional contributor to Bloomberg Opinion, Dan writes on Asia and tech. His work is widely cited in the press and his essays have appeared on publications like Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, and New York Magazine.

Dan previously worked in Silicon Valley and studied philosophy at the University of Rochester.