Taiwan’s Pension Fund Association (PFA) members have elected Sharon Yang, a professor at the National Chengchi University, as the new chairman of the group.
The election was held on June 2, one day after the PFA’s former chairman, Francine Wu, finished her three-year term, a spokesperson for the group tells Asia Asset Management.
Yang, who will also hold the chairman role for three years, teaches at the National Chengchi University’s department of finance, and is also director of the finance research centre at its college of business. According to her bio shared by the spokesperson, she has extensive experience in sustainable finance and pension systems.
She also holds several public positions, including serving on the environment ministry’s carbon fee rate review committee, and the environmental, social and governance evaluation advisory committee of Taiwan Index Plus, a unit of the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
The PFA is a non-profit organisation that recommends pension reforms to the government and hosts pension-related seminars. The group has around 600 members comprising practitioners from the asset management, pension, financial and academic sectors.
