Dr. Alan Hao Yang is Executive Director of Taiwan-Asian Exchange Foundation (TAEF). He also serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He teaches at the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies (GIEAS) as a professor of Southeast Asia studies. Dr. Yang engages in track II diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific. Dr. Yang was awarded the SUSI Fellowship from the U.S. Department of State in 2011. He was also affiliated with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University in Japan as a visiting scholar in 2015. Dr. Yang has been nominated as a senior fellow of George HW Bush Foundation for US-China Relations in the United States since 2021 and a non-resident fellow of China Desk of the Reconnaissance Research in Kuwait since July of 2021. In 2024, he was awarded as the ELITE fellow at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.