Dr Ling Yang is Deputy Secretary-General of HKIAC and Chief Representative of the Shanghai Office.
Prior to joining HKIAC in January 2018, Ling was an Associate Professor at the East China University of Political Science and Law where she taught international arbitration for nine years. During 2017, Ling was a visiting scholar at Boston University School of Law. Ling has published widely on issues of international dispute resolution and arbitration in China, and currently serves as Executive Editor-in-Chief for the Shanghai International Arbitration Review. Ling was an observer at UNCIRTAL Working Groups on arbitration. Ling has also been appointed as arbitrator. She obtained a PhD in 2009 and an LLM in Private International Law in 2006 from Wuhan University International Law Institute. In 2008, she was visiting scholar at the University of Aix-en-Provence Marseille III. Ling speaks Mandarin Chinese, English, and basic French.