BRIAN W TANG is co-chair of the Asia Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA).

Brian is founding executive director of Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Lab, the award-winning interdisciplinary and experiential programme at University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law (LITE Lab@HKU). LITE Lab and its students have won international accolades such as 2023 Edtech Heroes Award for Stakeholder Engagement (Adult Education), Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Legal Innovation in Operations Award 2022 and Georgetown Law’s Iron Tech Lawyer Invitational. Brian is part of the small vanguard of educators incorporating use of generative AI into his law school teaching and has applied his pedagogy to upskilling in-house lawyers, and also leads a climate contracting initiative involving leading law firms and legal departments in collaboration with The Chancery Lane Project.

Brian previously spent nearly 20 years at global investment bank Credit Suisse in Hong Kong, and at law firms Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and California and Mallesons in Perth, Australia.

Brian is also APAC Regional board member of Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL), and board member of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong.