Wang Shaoguang (Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell University in 1990) is a chair professor and chairperson in the Department of Government and Public Administration, and the director of Universities Service Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Changjiang Professor in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, an non-official member of HKSAR's Commission on Strategic Development, and the chief editor of The China Review, an interdisciplinary journal on greater China. He taught at Tijiao High School in Wuhan, China from 1972 to 1977 and at Yale University in the United States from 1990 to 2000. His research interests include political economy, comparative politics, fiscal politics, democratization, and economic and political development in former socialist countries and East Asian countries.