Wu, Guoguang

Wu Guoguang (simplified Chinese: 吴国光; traditional Chinese: 吳國光; pinyin: Wú Guóguāng; Wade–Giles: Wu Kuo-kuang, born in 1957 in Linyi, Shandong, China) is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University, affiliated with the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions (SCCEI). SCCEI, a collaboration between the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), aims to link advanced empirical research on China's economy with policies that shape U.S.-China economic, trade, and business relations. He also serves as a Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at the Center for China Analysis (CCA) of the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). Wu is a media commentator on China's current affairs. His research focuses on Chinese politics and comparative political economy, covering areas such as elite politics, national institutions, policy making, communism transition, development politics, China's global positioning, capitalism's evolution with globalization, comparative capitalism origins, the economic state's rise, and human security's global emergence.