Yan Xu is Scientia Associate Professor of Tax Law at UNSW, Australia and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Yan has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Columbia Law School and has held international academic fellowships at, among others, the University of Cambridge, New York University, and the University of Melbourne. She has published extensively in the field of tax law, and made presentations on invitation from prominent bodies, including the Australian Commonwealth Treasury, United Nations ESCAP, and the International Fiscal Association. She is an awardee of several competitive government research grants.