Alex Wang

Secretary-General, Youthink Center
China

Managing Director of Global Committee on Social Business for Sustainable Development Goals, which was chaired by Nobel Peace Laureate and UN SDG Advocate Emeritus Professor Muhammad Yunus. And led the organizing committee of United Nations General Assembly High-Level Event on Social Business, Youth, and Technology.  Alex was Founder and Chair of Youthink Center in China, one of the leading Chinese youth think and do tank focusing on global challenges and opportunities.  Under his leadership,  Youthink Center has won Youth4Asia Award by Asian Development Bank in 2015, UN People’s Voices Award for Best Social Media Campaign by United Nations SDG Action Campaign, and Haifan Award by the People’s Daily.

Alex is the first Chinese to be nominated as Board of Director in United Nations Major Group on Children and Youth (Term 2020-2022) .He has been awarded with numbers of leadership awards and scholarship programs including Australia-China Young Leaders Dialogue, British-China Young Leaders Dialogue, Harvard HKS Philanthropy Leaders Program. World Business Dialogue Youth Fellow, and Club of Rome Change Course Young leaders.