Bin Wong

Bin Wong is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an Affiliated Faculty member of the Luskin Center for History and Policy (LCHP). He has held multiple research fellowships at the Luskin Center, including the inaugural Innovation Fellows cohort (2017-2018), Luskin Fellows (2018-2019), and LCHP Research Fellows (2020-2021).

His research specializes in Chinese historical patterns of political, economic, and social change analyzed within Asian regional contexts and through comparative frameworks with European developments. Key interests include institutional evolution, globalization dynamics, and policy-relevant historical analysis, particularly in water governance systems across China, the EU, and the US. He has authored foundational works like "China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience" (1997) and "Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe" (2011), alongside ninety-plus international publications.

Professor Wong's current LCHP-funded research examines multi-level water governance institutional histories from early modern periods through contemporary environmental-economic policy challenges, identifying transferable decision-making frameworks across distinct political traditions. His work emphasizes cross-regional policy adaptation by analyzing how different institutional settings allocate economic benefits and environmental costs.