Rui Wang

Expertise

Regions

• China
• United States

Topics

• Climate Change
• Economic Development
• Infrastructure
• Natural Resources
• Sustainable Development
• Urbanization

Languages

• Chinese
• English

Background and Education

Rui Wang specializes in public policy analysis for sustainable development, especially on cities, the environment, and China. He teaches Applied Policy Analysis with Cases in Sustainable Development, Cities: Toward Sustainable Prosperity, and Global Environment Fundamentals. He is the inaugural SAIS China Yeung Family Endowed Scholar and a faculty fellow of the SAIS Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy. Rui''s research appears in the areas of public policy, economics, and natural science and has been covered in the Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. He gave invited talks at the China Finance 40 Forum, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, RAND, the World Bank, and numerous academic conferences and institutions. The IPCC''s Fifth Assessment Report cites his articles on California''s local climate actions, China''s urban household carbon emissions, and parking in China''s cities. Rui is a steering committee member of the Johns Hopkins 21^st Century Cities Initiative. He serves on the editorial boards of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment and the Journal of Transportation and Statistics. He has also consulted for the Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the World Bank.