Oscar Tang

Who is Oscar Tang?

Oscar L. Tang is a Chinese-born American billionaire financier who is notable as the first leading Chinese-American philanthropist for education and arts and culture. He is known to be a significant donor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Philharmonic, Yale University, Skidmore College, the Vail Valley Foundation, the Dunhuang Foundation, the Gordon Parks Foundation, and other organizations. Tang has also contributed to other institutions including the Tang Center at Princeton University named after his parents P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang, MIT, Duke University, and Harvard University. In 2008, he gave $25 million to Phillips Academy in what was the school's largest ever single contribution. Tang resides in New York City and Vail.