Education & Qualifications

Mr Yang won a prestigious Government of Singapore Public Service Commission scholarship to read Law as an undergraduate at Magdalene College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, Mr Yang served as President of the Cambridge University Malaysian and Singapore Association. After graduation, he was called to the English Bar as a barrister of the Middle Temple.

Besides his English legal qualification, Mr Yang is also qualified in Singapore, Hong Kong (where he is also a Solicitor-Advocate) and New York State.

Mr Yang is a Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Chartered Arbitrator status represents excellence in arbitral practice.

He is also an Accredited Mediator of the Centre for Dispute Resolution.

Mr Yang is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Chiuchow (Teochew), Fujianese (Hokkien), Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Indonesia. He is among a very small group of non-PRC arbitrators with the ability to conduct bilingual arbitrations in English and Chinese as well as draft awards in English and Chinese (in both simplified and traditional Chinese script).