Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and a member of the Paris Peace Forum’s Steering Committee, participated in three panel discussions at the ninth edition of the Paris Peace Forum, held in Paris on 10–11 November 2026 under the theme “From Sovereignty to Cooperation.”
Among the prominent participants were French President Emmanuel Macron; Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye; Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan; European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde; OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann; UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus; and Philippe Etienne, President of the Paris Peace Forum.
On 10 November, Wang participated in “From Mineral Sovereignty to Cooperation: Building Partnerships Around Shared Interests,” a roundtable jointly organised by the Paris Peace Forum and the French Development Agency (AFD).
The discussion was moderated by Michael Igoe, Senior Reporter at Devex, and brought together Pascal Lamy, Vice President of the Paris Peace Forum and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO); Fouad Hussein, Iraq’s Minister of Foreign Affairs; Bogolo Kenewendo, Botswana’s Minister of Minerals and Energy; Karim Dahou, Deputy Director for Global Relations and Cooperation at the OECD; Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS); Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, former Environment Minister of Peru and President of COP20; Kadri Simson, former European Commissioner for Energy; and Laurent Biddiscombe, Executive Director for Sustainable Development Solutions at AFD.
On 11 November, Wang joined “USA at 250 and the World: Between Global Order and Disorder,” a discussion was moderated by Tara Varma, Managing Director for Strategic Foresight and Director of the Paris Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).
Other panellists included Philippe Etienne, President of the Paris Peace Forum; Penny Abeywardena, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Soft Power Strategies and former Commissioner for International Affairs for New York City; Dubai Abulhoul Alfalasi, Chief Executive Officer of the Fiker Institute; and Mariana Campos, Director of México Evalúa.
Later on 11 November, Wang participated in “How to Avoid a War for Talent ?”, a discussion moderated by Mathieu Duchâtel, Director of International Studies at Institut Montaigne.
The panel included Jerry Kponyo, Director of the Office of Grants and Research at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana; Nachouat Meghouar, Chief Executive Officer of the French-African Foundation; Sachin Kumar Sharma, Director General of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS); and Luis Vassy, Director of Sciences Po Paris.
CCG has participated in every edition of the Paris Peace Forum since its launch in 2018, making 2026 its ninth consecutive year of participation. CCG is the Forum’s only official partner from China, while Wang serves as the only Chinese member of its Steering Committee.
Transcript: CCG-JETRO Luncheon on Economic Cooperation Between Japan and China in a Changing World
On 28 October 2026, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) jointly hosted a CCG VIP Luncheon in Beijing, under the theme “Economic Cooperation Between Japan and China in a Changing World”.