Robert S. Wang is a senior associate with the Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (SFS) from 2018-2023 and a career foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of State from 1984 to 2016. Bob last served as the U.S. senior official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation from 2013 to 2015 and as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2011 to 2013. He was a senior adviser at Covington & Burling LLP from 2016–18 and a visiting fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS from 2009 to 2010. Previously, Dr. Wang was deputy director of the American Institute in Taiwan from 2006 to 2009. He has served abroad in Tokyo (1985–1987), Hong Kong (1987–1990), Shanghai (1994–1997), Singapore (1997–2000), and Beijing (2001–2005). He also served as Cambodia desk officer at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC (1991–1993). Dr. Wang attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University (2000–2001) and was the State Department's Diplomat in Residence at the University of California, Los Angeles (2005–2006). He earned his PhD in political science at the University of Iowa in 1976. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he was an assistant professor of international relations at Whittier College in California (1977–1984).

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