Wang Youcai (Chinese:王有才;pinyin:Wáng Yǒucái, born 29 June 1966) is aChinese dissident and was one of the prominent student leaders in theTiananmen Square protests of 1989. At the time he was graduate student at thePeking University, he was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to four years in 1991[1] for "conspiring to overthrow the Government of China".
He was released early, in November 1991, due to the help of former U.S. Secretary of StateJames Baker, who visited Beijing in 1991.
On 25 June 1998, he and his colleagues organized theChina Democracy Party, which was subsequently banned by theChinese government. In December 1998 the Chinese government sentenced him to 11 years in prison forsubversion. He was released from prison and exiled in 2004 under international political pressure, especially from theUnited States.
Wang was a visiting scholar at Fairbank Center atHarvard University[2] for one year, and completed his master's degree at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign[3] in 2006. He is a member of theWikiLeaks advisory board.[4][5] He is one of the members of theChinese Constitutional Democratic Transition Research and one of the members of theCoordinative Service Platform of China Democracy Party. On 15 July 2009, he became co-advisor of Overseas Supporters' Association of the China Democracy Party, and later became co-executive associate for Committee of Exiled members of the China Democracy Party on 10 October 2009.
He did his Ph.D. research on quark transversity at National Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia from June 2007 to June 2010. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in physics at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. He worked atAmerican Express in New York from February 2011 to December 2012. Then he joinedCiti and worked there from 2 January 2013 to 20 June 2022.
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