Yuchen Wang

Yuchen Wang is a PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL), funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). His current academic interests include the politics and political economy of energy and the environment, with a focus on Nigeria and Ghana. His doctoral research, provisionally titled Localising the Energy Transition: Domestic Solar Manufacturing and Green Industrial Policies in Nigeria and Ghana, examines how green industrial policies are formulated and implemented to promote domestic solar manufacturing, and how businesses and other non-state actors respond to these policies. Since December 2026, he has been a visiting researcher at the Confucius Institute, University of Lagos.

Before starting his doctoral studies, Yuchen completed an MA in African Studies at Leiden University (2024-2025). He also holds an MA in International Security from Sciences Po Paris (2022-2024) and undergraduate degrees in International Politics and Journalism from Renmin University of China in Beijing (2017-2021).