Hanjie Wang is a Political Scientist with research and teaching interests in international and comparative political economy, environmental politics, and Chinese politics. Her current work focuses on the comparative analysis of electric vehicle policies in China, the US, and India, alongside the underlying politics of global EV trade and investment policies. She has a broad interest in the role of governments in facilitating green technological transitions and in the interactions between trade and environmental policies. She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington and will commence her role as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center starting August 2024. Hanjie has received training in demographic methodology from the UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) in 2024, and she is interested in examining how population changes influence environmental impacts.