Feng Wang

WANG Feng is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a scholar with expertise in global demographic change, social inequality, public policy, and comparative population and social history. Wang Feng is the author of several award-winning books in these areas and has contributed to many other publications. His work and views have been prominently featured in major global media outlets. Additionally, he has served as an expert for organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum, among many others. Wang Feng’s extensively professional background includes terms as Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, Senior Fellow in Foreign Relations and in Global Development at the Brookings Institution, and Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing. Wang Feng is a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.