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

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