WANG Yahua is a tenured professor at the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, and the President of China Institute for Rural Studies at Tsinghua University. He has completed a visiting scholarship in the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington (2009-2010). He is also the China Coordinator for the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), a member of the Expert Committee on International Public Administration, and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal World Development Sustainability. His researches focus on commons governance, urban-rural public governance, agricultural development and rural revitalization, and sustainable economic and social development. He is committed to introducing innovative perspectives on the governance of “Commons,” integrating the interdisciplinary fields in resource and environmental economics, public administration, and studies of contemporary China. This has formed a distinctive research direction in the study of public governance and policy process in the Chinese context. He has authored over 10 books and published more than 200 scholarly papers, including 50 papers in SSCI/SCI-indexed journals. His work has appeared in World Development, The China Quarterly, Water Resources Research, Agricultural Water Management, Ecology and Sociology, Land Use Policy, Journal of Rural Studies, as well as other high caliber journals.