Mr. Liang Wang is the Resident Representative of the World Bank for Botswana since November 2022. He brings more than fifteen years of experience working at the World Bank across regions and the headquarters. He was the coordinator for the China, Korea and Mongolia country program—one of the largest programs at the World Bank from 2019-2022. Prior to that, Liang worked on the operational policy of the International Development Association—the concessional finance window of the World Bank, led tasks to formulate the World Bank’s country strategies in Tanzania, Burundi, Guinea Bissau and Burkina Faso, and advised the Managing Director of the World Bank overseeing the Bank’s operations in Africa, South Asia, and Europe and Central Asia regions. Before joining the World Bank, Liang worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and the UN Development Programme and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
Liang was an International Fellow of the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC (2022 cohort) and a Global Governance Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin (2009-2011). His writings have appeared in the Washington Quarterly, the International Herald Tribune, the South China Morning Post, the Straits Times, and others.
Liang holds double Master’s degrees from The George Washington University in Washington and The University of Hong Kong, and a BA degree from the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing. He has also studied at Sciences Po in France and University of Oslo in Norway.