Hao Wang
2023 Candidate for Cambridge City Council and School Committee
Home address:
1 Longfellow Rd.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact information:
email: dr.hao.wang@gmail.com
phone: 617-899-1199
website: haoforcambridge.com
Twitter: twitter.com/haoforcambridge
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1 Longfellow Rd.
Cambridge, MA 02138
New Candidate - 2023
Dr. Hao Wang is the former Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health, the nation’s largest mental health system, and the former Chief Information Officer for the State University of New York, the country’s largest comprehensive higher education system. He has been a resident of Cambridge for decades and a homeowner in Cambridge for more than 25 years. His central priorities are livable city, inclusion, clean energy, businessfriendliness, and public health.
Hao has successfully led and managed private, public, and not-for-profit organizations. He is an expert on leadership, operations management, environmental sustainability and governance (ESG), diversity equity and inclusion (DEI), public health, and smart city. Beginning his career in Massachusetts, Dr. Wang created one of the nation’s first health information exchanges in central Massachusetts.
Originally from China, Dr. Wang received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in physics from Peking University. After arrival at Cambridge, Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s in public administration from Harvard University. A scientist and engineer by training, Hao is a bilingual poet who writes in Chinese and English. He has published Boya Essay Collection (Peking University Press) and Boya Poetry (Oriental Publishing House). His poetry collections include One Peck, One Sound (Writer’s Publishing House), and Echo of the Tesseract (Writer’s Publishing House).
Hao is a board member for our local Riverside Community Care, a leading behavioral health and human services provider. Hao’s professional experience also includes the managing director of Accenture, the world’s largest management and technology consulting firm. He has helped several global 500 companies and mega cities transform their business and technology. He wants to help Cambridge achieve its objectives and goals.