北京大学国家发展学院助理教授。主要研究领域包括中非关系、非洲政治、国际发展。在入职北大之前，她曾在昆山杜克大学任国际关系助理教授。于2021年7月于牛津大学获得政治学博士学位，并于2021-22年在哥伦比亚-哈佛中国与世界项目及哥伦比亚大学Weatherhead东亚研究中心任博士后研究员。她获得牛津大学政治研究硕士及哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院公共管理硕士，本科于上海外国语大学获法学学士学位。她曾任职于联合国开发计划署驻华办公室及中非卓越基金会肯尼亚办公室。

Book:

Wang, Y. (2023). The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development. (Oxford University Press)

Wang, Y. and Y., Luo, (2015). China Business Perception Index: Survey on Chinese Companies' Perception of Doing Business in Kenya. Geneva: Globethics.net.

Peer-reviewed Articles：

Li, H. & Wang, Y. (2025). ‘Adaptive Governance in Action: How Chinese State Actors Respond to Overseas Pushback on the Belt and Road Initiative’ China Quarterly, 1-17..

Wang, Y. & Zhang, H. (2024). ‘Individual Agency and Structural Constraints in South-South Policy Transfer: China and Ethiopia’s Industrial Park Development.’ Review of International Political Economy, 1-25.

Calabrese, L., & Wang, Y. (2023). ‘Chinese capital, regulatory strength and the BRI: A tale of ‘fractured development’ in Cambodia.’ World Development, 169, 106290.

Wang, Y. (2022). ‘Presidential extraversion: Understanding the politics of Sino-African mega-infrastructure projects.’ World Development, 158, 105976.

Wang, Y. (2022). ‘Executive agency and State capacity in development: Comparing Sino-African railways in Kenya and Ethiopia.’ Comparative Politics, 54(2), 349-373.

Honorable mention for the Kendra Koivu Paper Award given by APSA’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section (2022).

Wang, Y. and U. Wissenbach, (2019). ‘Clientelism at work? A case study of Kenyan Standard Gauge Railway project.’ Economic History of Developing Regions, 34/3: 280-299.

Chapters, Media & Book Reviews：

Wang, Y. (2025). ‘Africa's Tech Challenge: A Chinese State-Owned Enterprise's Corporate Social Responsibility Experiment in Kenya.’ In Erie, M., A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment: Law, Policy, and Business. Cambridge University Press.

Zhang H. and Y. Wang, ‘The Railpolitik: A Conversation with Yuan Wang,’ Global China Pulse, (October 2nd, 2024). https://globalchinapulse.net/the-railpolitik-a-conversation-with-yuan-wang/

Sun, Y. and Y. Wang, (2015). ‘Learning to Collaborate: The Case Study of a Chinese-Kenyan CSR Effort.’ In Young-Chan Kim (eds). China and Africa: A New Paradigm of Global Business. Springer.

Wissenbach, U. and Y. Wang, (2015). ‘Development Policy – alternatives, challenges and opportunities.’ In Wang, J. and W. Song, China, the European Union and International Politics of Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan.

Wang, Y. (2022). How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions by Luke Patey. New York, Oxford University Press, 2021. 400 pp. $29.95.