About
Andy Yee is a public affairs executive with experience in the financial services and technology sectors. He is currently Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Asia at Sun Life, and was previously with Visa and Google. He has also held roles in public institutions including the Hong Kong Government and the European Union Delegation to China. He started his career in investment banking and capital markets.
He is a published author on finance, technology and geopolitics, and his works have appeared in leading academic and policy journals. He is an Industry Associate at the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a former Payments Committee Co-Chair of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong, and a 2017 AILA International Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and a master’s degree in Pacific Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He speaks Mandarin, English, Japanese and Cantonese.
Contacts
Papers
The Geography of Digital Money, AsiaGlobal Online, April 14, 2022.
The Coming Battle Over Bitcoin Governance, Oxford Business Law Blog, December 21, 2021.
Internet and blockchain technologies: authoritarian or democratic?, Internet Policy Review, May 22, 2019.
Blockchain in China: Tussle Between Control and Openness, AsiaGlobal Online, March 22, 2018.
Asia's Payments Revolution, Cutter Business Technology Journal, Vol. 29, No. 11, November 2016, pp.29-31.
Internet architecture and the layers principle: a conceptual framework for regulating Bitcoin, Internet Policy Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, August 2014. DOI: 10.14763/2014.3.289
Projects
Editor of the Cryptocurrency Hub of ResearchHub, an open science community powered by ResearchCoin (RSC).