Alex Wang
Alex Wang is a visiting law Professor at the UC Berkeley Boalt Law School. Wang previously served as senior attorney of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) based in Beijing and was director of NRDC’s China Environmental Law Project. Mr. Wang has worked towards strengthening enforcement of China’s laws and policies, and the role of the public in environmental protection. He was a Fulbright Fellow to China from 2004-05. Prior to that, Mr. Wang was an attorney at a private law firm in New York City, where he worked on mergers & acquisitions and pro bono Endangered Species Act litigation. He blogs regularly at www.greenlaw.org.cn/enblog and switchboard.nrdc.org.
Mr. Wang received a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law and a B.S. in Biology from Duke University.
In the News:
- Alex Wang on China’s progress in environmental transparency in “In China, a New Transparency on Government Pollution Data”, Reuters, December 20, 2010
- Alex Wang addresses China’s efforts to meet its energy intensity targets in “What to Make of China’s Efforts to Meet Its Energy Intensity Targets”, Huffington Post, October 23, 2010
- Alex Wang on China’s recent efforts to reduce GHG emissions in “China Making Inroads on Emissions”, Washington Post, September 12, 2010
- Alex Wang on why China and the U.S. should take lessons from and make investments in each other in “Why Greening China is a National Priority”, Earth911.com, August 30, 2010
- Alex Wang on China’s ordered closure of more than 2,000 factories to cut emissions and improve efficiency in “China orders polluting and unsafe factories to shut down”, Guardian, August 9, 2010
- Alex Wang on the future of China’s new environmental courts in “Strengthening Enforcement of China’s Environmental Protection Laws”, Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, March 22, 2010
- Alex Wang in “Chinese and British Officials Tangle in Testy Exchange Over Climate Agreement” New York Times, December 23, 2009
Additional Information:
UC Berkeley Boalt Law School
awang@law.berkeley.edu
(510) 642-6975
Expert Blog Posts
Experts In the News
Experts
- Nathaniel Aden , World Resources Institute
- Edward Cunningham , Boston University
- Erica Downs , The Brookings Institution
- Meredydd Evans , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Barbara Finamore , Natural Resources Defense Council
- Jerry Fletcher , West Virginia University
- Sarah Forbes , World Resources Institute
- David Fridley , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Kelly Sims Gallagher , Tufts University
- Banning Garrett , Atlantic Council
- Stephen Hammer , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Melanie Hart , Center for American Progress
- Mikkal Herberg , The National Bureau of Asian Research
- Isabel Hilton , Chinadialogue
- Trevor Houser , Peterson Institute for International Economics
- S.T. Hsieh , Tulane University
- Angel Hsu , Yale University
- Daniel Kammen , University of California, Berkeley
- Robert Kapp , Robert A. Kapp and Associates
- Albert Keidel , Atlantic Council
- David Kline , National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Bo Kong , Johns Hopkins University
- Michael Levi , Council on Foreign Relations
- Mark Levine , Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Joanna Lewis , Georgetown University
- Kenneth Lieberthal , The Brookings Institution
- Haibing Ma , Worldwatch Institute
- Denise Mauzerall , Princeton University
- Irving Mintzer , Potomac Energy Fund
- Chris Nielsen , Harvard University
- Rose Niu , World Wildlife Fund
- Stephanie Ohshita , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Huei Peng , University of Michigan
- Lynn Price , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- David Pumphrey , Center for Strategic and International Studies
- JingJing Qian , Natural Resources Defense Council
- Rod Quinn , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Luke Schoen , Tsinghua-Berkeley Inter-University Program
- Deborah Seligsohn , World Resources Institute
- Monisha Shah , National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Bo Shen , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Edward Steinfeld , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Kevin Tu , Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Jennifer Turner , Woodrow Wilson Center
- Alex Wang , UC Berkeley Boalt Law School
- Elizabeth Wilson , University of Minnesota
- Julian Wong , Green Leap Forward
- Ailun Yang , World Resources Institute
- Zhang Xiaoquan , The Nature Conservancy
- Nan Zhou , Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Data Sources
BP Statistical Review of World Energy
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (ORNL)
China Energy Databook (LBNL)
Key China Energy Statistics 2011 (LBNL)
Climate Analysis Indicator Tool (CAIT)
Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR)
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
International Energy Agency (IEA)
The World Bank
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
