Libing Wang
Chief of the Health and Education Section - UNESCO
Mr. Libing Wang is Chief of the Health and Education Section at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, a position he assumed in October 2024 after relocating from the UNESCO Bangkok Office.
Before joining UNESCO Headquarters, Mr. Wang dedicated 12 years to the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok, serving in multiple leadership roles—most recently as Chief of the Education Section. With a distinguished career in education and a strong research foundation, he brings extensive expertise to his work.
Prior to UNESCO, Mr. Wang was a Professor of Comparative Education at Zhejiang University, China, where he also led the UNESCO-APEID Associated Centre for over a decade. His leadership extended to key regional and global initiatives, including serving as Secretary of the Global University Network for Innovation – Asia-Pacific (GUNI-AP) and as a member of the Asia-Pacific Regional Follow-up Committee for the 1998 World Conference on Higher Education.
Mr. Wang holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Education from Hangzhou University, China, and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Sussex and the University of Warwick in the UK. His research interests include comparative education, higher education policy, and teacher education.
