Qingji Yang, Ph.D.

Qingji Yang is a Part-Time Lecturer in the Enterprise Risk Management Program at Columbia University. His teaching includes Value-Based Enterprise Risk Management, Stress Testing and Capital Planning (CCAR), Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP), and Digital Assets Risk Management. He also leads seminars on AI and Risk Management.

Qingji is also a Distinguished Executive-in-Residence and Adjunct Lecturer at Rutgers Business School, where he teaches courses in the Master of Quantitative Finance (MQF) program, including Regulatory Capital Management, Market Risk Management, and Credit Risk Management. He also leads seminars in Treasury and Liquidity Risk Management.

Qingji retired from EY in 2024 after a career spanning more than three decades in academia and financial services consulting. Before retiring, he was Co-leader of Financial Services Business Consulting for the Americas at EY. In that role, he helped lead a large consulting practice serving financial institutions across strategy, business transformation, finance, risk management, regulatory compliance, data, analytics, and technology. He also served as EY Financial Services Risk Management (FSRM) leader for the Americas, overseeing work in risk management, regulatory compliance, financial crime compliance, structured finance, and quantitative advisory services.

Earlier in his EY career, Qingji founded and led EY’s Quantitative Advisory Services (QAS) practice, building it into an industry-recognized provider of quantitative and analytics services to financial institutions. Across these roles, he advised senior leaders at major U.S. and foreign banking organizations, as well as insurance and asset management firms.

Qingji began his career in academia as a professor and researcher in mathematics before moving into consulting. He brings that academic foundation and his industry experience to his teaching, connecting risk management concepts with the practical challenges financial institutions face.

A longtime advocate for diversity and inclusion, Qingji was among the first Chinese professionals promoted to partner at EY in the United States. In 2017, Ascend recognized him with its inaugural Global Leaders Trailblazer Award.