Kang Wu

Dr. Kang Wu has decades of research and consulting experience spanning energy demand, supply, trade, policy, energy transition, and energy security—particularly in the oil, gas, petrochemical, and power sectors. Based in Singapore, he currently collaborates with JLC Network Technology Co., Ltd., the National University of Singapore, and other organizations on cross-commodity and energy transition research, with a particular focus on global macroeconomic trends as well as oil and gas market outlooks. From 2018 to 2025, Dr. Wu worked at S&P Global Commodity Insights (renamed S&P Global Energy in November 2025), holding vice president and other senior roles with responsibility for global macroeconomics, oil demand, market risk assessment, and Asia-focused energy analytics. Before that, he served as Director of Markets & Industrial Development and Senior Research Fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) in Riyadh, where he led research on global oil, gas, and coal markets and industrial development, with a particular focus on the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa. Earlier in his career, Dr. Wu was Vice Chairman for Asia at FGE, an international energy consultancy, and spent two decades as a Senior Fellow and Research Leader at the East–West Center in the US. In these roles, he conducted extensive research on economic development, oil and gas markets, energy security, power sectors, decarbonization, and other environmental issues across the Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Western Hemisphere, and other regions, all within a global context. Dr. Wu is a frequent speaker at international conferences, forums, workshops, seminars, webinars, and training programs. He is the author or co-author of numerous research papers, analytical reports, project studies, journal articles, books, book chapters, and other publications. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.