Professor Wenran Jiang is Mactaggart Research Chair, former founding Director of the China Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He is a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Special Advisor on China to US and Canada based Energy Council, a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. (Sept. 2009 – March 2010), and a Bloomberg BusinessWeek online columnist. He is also the President of Wenya Group Inc., a private consulting firm specializing in economic, political and cultural engagement strategies with China. Dr. Jiang has written extensively on the rise of China and its impact on the Chinese political economy and the rest of the world, with a major focus on the shifting balance of power in the global economy, international finance and energy and resource sectors. He has conducted field research in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East on China’s energy and resource extractions, and has followed Chinese investments around the world.
