Yueh-Ping (Alex) Yang is an associate professor at the National Taiwan University College of Law and the deputy director of the Center for Innovative Enterprise Law. His teaching and writing focus on financial regulation, FinTech, corporate governance, capital markets, international economic law, and law and economics. He received the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from the National Science and Technology Council in 2024 and the winning paper award in the 2022 Washington, DC FinTech Week.
Beside academic studies, he advised domestic government agencies and institutions on legal issues related to finance and technology, including the Financial Supervisory Commission, the Ministry of Digital Affairs, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Office of Trade Negotiations, the Anti-Money Laundering Office, Taiwan Stock Exchange, Taipei Stock Exchange, Taiwan Future Exchange, etc. He is also the director of the Financial Ombudsman Institute in Taiwan. Internationally, he is the Co-Chair of the World Trade Organization's WTO Chair Programme (Phase III) and the Co-Chair of Amercian Society of Comparative Law's Younger Comparativists Committee (2024-2026).
He studied laws at the National Taiwan University College of Law and Harvard Law School and received the S.J.D. degree at Harvard Law School in 2017.