22 Facts About Oscar Tang

Oscar Liu-Chien Tang is a Chinese-born American businessman, financier, investor, and philanthropist.

Oscar Tang was born in Shanghai, China, and his family fled from the country when the Communist revolution took over in 1949.

Oscar Tang attended Rectory School and Phillips Academy in Andover.

Oscar Tang served as president and CEO for over 20 years.

Oscar Tang's grandfather was the first Chinese person to be documented in the Northampton, MA census in 1880.

Oscar Tang's father was Oscar Tang Ping-yuan, a Boxer indemnity scholarship student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who became one of the early civic and business leaders of post-1949 Hong Kong; he was a leading philanthropist in education.

Oscar Tang was widely respected for his business success and as a civic leader.

Oscar Tang Ping-yuan received many honors in his lifetime including Justice of the Peace and Order of the British Empire.

Oscar Tang has talked about his family's roots in American education publicly and attributes his own experience and philanthropy to his family history.

In 2013 Oscar Tang married Agnes Hsu-Oscar Tang, a Penn-, Cambridge-, and Stanford-educated archaeologist and UNESCO advisor on the faculty at Columbia University.

Oscar Tang's brother was Jack Chi-chien Oscar Tang, a Hong Kong business leader, educator, philanthropist and one of the founders of the Asia Society Hong Kong Center in 1990.

Oscar Tang was honored as Vail Valley's Citizen of the Year in 2004.

In June 2016, Oscar Tang was honored by the Metropolitan Museum with its Business Committee Civic Leadership Award for his service and contribution as a longtime trustee and philanthropist.

Oscar Tang was instrumental in preserving the buildings and campus of the former Abbot Academy, which merged with Phillips Academy, when there had been discussion about razing the no-longer-used structures; Tang's philanthropy gave funds for preservation of these buildings.

In October 2014, Oscar Tang gave an additional $15 million to establish the Oscar Tang Institute at Andover.

Oscar Tang is a member of the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Oscar Tang gave $14 million in 1997 to enable the museum to purchase rare and valuable Chinese paintings, most notably what is commonly known as the Riverbank by Dong Yuan.

Oscar Tang received the Met Museum's Civic Leadership Award in June 2016.

Oscar L Tang was elected to be the next co-chairman of the New York Philharmonic, with Peter W May, on April 3,2019.

Oscar Tang gave $10.2 million for the Oscar Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in 2000.

The purpose of the Frances Young Oscar Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is to awaken the community to the richness and diversity of the human experience through the medium of art.

Every year the Museum has a designated day in honor of its namesake and alumna, Frances Young Oscar Tang, called Frances Day.