Wang Zhijian is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. He is also an associate professor at the Law School of Hohai University and a practicing lawyer in China. He has a strong interdisciplinary academic background, holds a PhD in law (international relations) and is a postdoctoral fellow in hydraulic engineering. From 2015 to 2018, he taught “Water Resources and Water Environment” at the center, and since 2019, he has been teaching “International Water Politics”.

Dr. Wang’s main research directions are international river politics and law and international maritime law. He has received four post-funding supports from the National Social Science Fund of China in this field. In 2016, he founded the Basin Rights database (Wang’s sixth batch of special funding results of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation), which aims to promote the quantification of national water rights in international river basins through the Basin Rights Approach (BRA) and promote international water justice. Dr. Wang has been a visiting scholar at foreign universities such as the Water and Watershed Institute of Oregon State University and the Brace Water Resources Center of McGill University in Canada.