William J. Vogt is a Senior Executive Fellow for Policy at The Digital Economist, a Washington, DC-based think tank. He is an experienced consultant and social media analyst with multiple publications (including two books) on issues of emerging markets, information technology policy, and international political economy.

 

He has taught graduate seminars at Georgetown University and a survey of the Chinese Internet at the Catholic University of America. He has experience in global risk management serving public and private sector clients. He was also the Founder and Managing Principal of Weilian Poder Global Consulting, a firm facilitating client engagement with senior business leaders in mainland China.

 

Vogt is a two-time graduate of Georgetown University, with a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service and an M.A. from the Communication, Culture, and Technology program. At Georgetown, he founded and led the university’s New Media in Asia Research Group and won a Hanban (Confucius Institute) scholarship to visit Nanjing University. He also studied in Beijing and Quito, Ecuador.