Mr. Charles Wang, Esq. Board Director and General Counsel

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Mr. Wang is a passionate fencing parent and a renowned international lawyer, entrepreneur, and law professor, with expertise in Safesport. He serves as a board director of and the pro bono counsel for FFO.

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Mr. Wang is a partner and the Chair of Asia Pacific Practice of a Washington DC and Virginia based law firm. He has over 25 years of legal and business experience both domestically and internationally. As an internationally renowned lawyer, he has represented Fortune 500 companies and multinational financial institutions in complex international transactions, litigations, and arbitrations. Before he joined his current law firm, Mr. Wang was a capital markets partner and the chair of Asia practice of one of the oldest and most prestigious New York based international law firm, where he received the Burton Award of Legal Achievement in association with the U.S. Library of Congress. Before that, he served as the head of China practice at a prominent Washington DC national law firm, where he acted as the lead counsel in the largest antidumping case at the time and chaired the Chinese Lawyers’ Association of the Greater Washington, D.C. In recent years, Mr. Wang has developed another area of his law practice – compliance of the Safesport Code for the betterment of the sports community.

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In addition to his legal expertise, Mr. Wang is a seasoned business executive. He is the current chairman and one of the principal founders of a high performance automotive manufacturer. With over a decade of business career serving as the chairman and CEO of both domestic automotive startups and a multi-billion-dollar international automotive joint venture, Mr. Wang brings extensive expertise to our organization’s management and governance. 

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As a legal scholar, Mr. Wang taught at China’s most prestigious Peking University and Tsinghua University law schools, served as a senior research fellow for China Financial Policy Research Center in Beijing and as a legal researcher and lecturer for the International Law Institute of Georgetown University Law Center. 

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Mr. Wang is licensed in the District of Columbia. He received his juris doctor degree with honors and his LLM degree from Duke University School of Law, his Master of Arts in Development Studies from Ohio University, and his LL.B degree from Xiangtan University College of Law in China.