Ziyi 'Emily' Wang

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  Ziyi 'Emily' Wang

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  Ziyi (Emily) Wang is a research and teaching fellow at the Hoover Institution. As a diplomatic historian of post-Napoleonic Europe, Wang applies her research on 19th-century European diplomacy to elucidate contemporary geopolitical challenges, including the management of maritime chokepoints, European collective security, and transactional great-power alliances. Her works have been published by Hoover Institution Press and Engelsberg Ideas.

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  Ziyi (Emily) Wang is a research and teaching fellow at the Hoover Institution. As a diplomatic historian of post-Napoleonic Europe, Wang examines the collapse of the Concert of Europe world order (1815–1914) through archival research in Britain, France, and Austria. At Hoover, Wang applies her research on 19th-century European diplomacy to elucidate contemporary geopolitical challenges, including the management of maritime chokepoints, European collective security, and transactional great-power alliances. Her works on the security of the Black Sea and the Turkish Straits regime have been published by Hoover Institution Press and Engelsberg Ideas.

  Wang is a member of the Royal Historical Society. Previously at the Hoover Institution, she worked as a research assistant to Director Condoleezza Rice and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, as she contributed to a white paper on public-private partnerships in combating COVID-19 and assisted with evacuation efforts in Afghanistan in 2021. Beyond academia, Wang worked for three years in financial intelligence at the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE 100)–listed Informa plc in London, directly facing clients of major UK financial institutions and insurance companies. She is fluent in English, Chinese, and French, with knowledge of Russian and German. Wang holds a BA in history and an MA in international policy from Stanford University and obtained her PhD from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

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