WANG Zhenmin
Professor of Constitutional Law at Tsinghua University Law School and Director of the Institute of National Governance.

Dr. Wang is professor of constitutional law at the Law School and President of the Institute for State Governances at Tsinghua University.

Dr. Wang joined Tsinghua University in 1995 as one of the earliest founders of the new law faculty. After 12 years as Vice Dean, he served as Dean of Tsinghua University School of Law from 2008 to 2016. From 2015 to 2018 he was appointed by the Liaison Office (the Office) of the Chinese Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to head its Legal Department. From 2020 to 2025 he served as Director General of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.    

In 2004, 2009 and 2014 he was appointed member of the Committee for the Macao Basic Law under the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress (and concurrently a member of the paralleling Committee for Hong Kong Basic Law from 2006 to 2008). From 2008 to 2018 he was a Deputy to the Beijing City People’s Congress, and in January 2013 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Law Committee of Beijing City Congress. He received his LL.B. from Zhengzhou University (1989) in Henan Province, LL.M. and Ph.D. in law from Renmin (People's) University of China (1992 and 1995). He also studied in the Law Faculty of Hong Kong University from 1993 to 1995. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 2000-2001. In 2010 he was awarded Top 10 Outstanding Young Jurist Prize by the China Law Society. His research area covers constitutional law, national security law, legal issues on Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, Chinese Communist Party regulations and rules, political theory. He is author of Central-Special Administrative Region Relationship in China——from a Legal Perspective (Beijing 2002, Hong Kong 2014, English version, Springer 2019) and Constitutional Review in China (Beijing, 2004),etc. He has published over 100 articles and presented papers at many regional and international conferences on Chinese constitutional law, legal reform, Hong Kong and Taiwan legal issues etc.