About Wu Guoguang
Guoguang Wu is Senior Research Scholar at Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University, Senior Scholar and Executive Director of the Human Security and Prosperity Project, Hoover Institution, and Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis. With a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, his research specializes in Chinese politics and comparative political economy, including, in China studies, transition from communism, elite politics, national political institutions and policy making mechanisms, politics of development, political communication, China’s search for its position in the world, and, in comparative political economy, transition of capitalism with globalization, the emergence of capitalism in comparative perspectives, and the worldwide rise of the economic state.