Wyman Wan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hobby Center for Public Policy, University of Houston
Wyman Wan receives his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2015 from the University of
Houston. His doctoral dissertation investigates the dynamics between monetary policy
innovation and economic voting in the United States. The study is funded by the
National Science Foundation. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Hobby Center,
and an instructor of the MPP program of the Hobby School of Public Policy.
His research interests are in policy innovation, public sector innovation, and political
economy. He is working on a number of projects, including the electoral implications of
inflation targeting policy, partisan unemployment policy and voting, comparative
analysis of innovation of public sector services, and the political economy of
transnational higher education.
Wyman Wan has experience in the public and private sectors, including work in
technology policy in government and industry analysis at Ernst & Young. He is trained in
business and public management, and holds degrees from the University of Hong Kong
and the University of Northern Iowa. He has done work in the United States, Greater
China, and Southeast Asia.