Oscar L. Tang has supported institutions that promote excellence in education, arts, culture, athletics, and the advancement of social justice for four decades. Mr. Tang is Co-Chairman of the New York Philharmonic and was part of the Lincoln Center– New York Philharmonic leadership that led the historic renovation of David Geffen Hall in 2022; his landmark gift endows the NY Phil’s music and artistic directorship, beginning with the appointment of Gustavo Dudamel.

For more than 30 years Mr. Tang has been a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has endowed the new wing for modern and contemporary Art. He also provided the lead support for The New York Historical’s new wing for the teaching of American history and democracy, which opened in June 2026 in honor of the nation’s semi-quincentennial.

Mr. Tang also serves on the boards of Committee of 100, Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts, and USA Bobsled & Skeleton Foundation. In 1989 he co-founded the Committee of 100 with Yo-Yo Ma, I.M. Pei, and others to advance US-China relations and Chinese American inclusion.

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush appointed Mr. Tang to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities; he later served on the New York State Council on the Arts. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

A graduate of Phillips Academy Andover, Oscar Tang served on the Academy’s board of trustees from 1995 to 2012, and as board president from 2004 to 2012. Under his leadership Andover became the first American preparatory school to go “need blind.” He attended Yale University and Harvard Business School, and has founded centers of academic excellence at Andover, Princeton, Columbia, University of California–Berkeley, and Oxford, including most recently the Hsu-Tang Library for Classical Chinese Literature at the Oxford University Press.

Mr. Tang has been a private investor since 1993, when he retired from Reich & Tang, an asset management firm that he cofounded and served as president and CEO for 20 years.