Profiles

Tengfei Wang joined the United Nations ESCAP as an economic affairs officer in 2008. Since then, he has been working on areas related to trade and transport facilitation, digital economy, technology, and innovation. Currently, his work is focused on implementing the Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-Border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific, providing advice to governments and undertaking studies on topics pertinent to trade facilitation, paperless trade, and digital economy. Over the course of his career, he drafted a large number of UN legislative documents, guidebooks, and reports. Furthermore, he publishes extensively in peer-review academic journals on trade, logistics, and digital economy. His publications have been cited more than 4,000 times according to Google Scholar. He earned his PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was the winner of the Palgrave Macmillan global PhD thesis competition (2002–2005).