Dan Wang

About

Dan Wang is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, in its Hoover History Lab and is one of the most-cited experts on China’s technological capabilities. He is the author of the forthcoming Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (W. W. Norton [US] and Penguin [UK], Fall 2025).

Wang was previously a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and a lecturer at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. From 2017 to 2023, he worked in China as the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, based in Hong Kong, Beijing, and then Shanghai.

While based in China, Wang covered the web of US tech restrictions; their impact on leading companies; and the country’s growing capabilities in semiconductors, clean technology, and advanced manufacturing.

In addition to a widely circulated annual letter from China, Wang has written essays that have appeared in in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, New York Magazine, Bloomberg Opinion, and The Atlantic. He has given keynote speeches in corporate and university settings, and he has been a guest on “The Ezra Klein Show,” Bloomberg’s “Odd Lots,” and other prominent podcasts. Wang studied philosophy at the University of Rochester and previously worked in Silicon Valley.