About Vincent OOI
Tax Law Academic
Dr Vincent Ooi is an Assistant Professor of Law, Head of the Singapore Tax Academy Research Initiative and Lee Kong Chian Fellow at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. His research focuses on tax law, with particular interests in attribution by beneficial ownership and crypto tax risks. Vincent is the immediate past Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia at SMU and was previously Deputy Head of Tax at a Singapore law firm. He served as Rapporteur for the International Law Association Committee on International Tax Law and has consulted for the United Nations and World Bank. Vincent has been a guest editor of the eJournal of Tax Research and regularly serves as a peer reviewer for numerous leading journals.
Vincent has held research positions at all three law schools in Singapore (SMU, NUS, and SUSS). His research has been published in leading journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies, and British Tax Review. Vincent’s books include Singapore Trusts Law (2021) and both tax law volumes of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore. His work has been cited a few hundred times, including by all levels of the Singapore Supreme Court, leading English and Singapore law texts, and organisations within the United Nations and European Commission. Vincent has been awarded several research prizes such as the Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association’s Best Tax Research Paper Prize and Lee Kong Chian Fellowship. He has been awarded research grants by organisations such as the Tax Academy of Singapore and Singapore Ministry of Education.
Vincent has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and has conducted training for various divisions of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. He has won several teaching awards including the Most Promising Teacher Award. Vincent has taught Singapore Equity and Trusts Law, Tax Law, and Contract Law; and UK Tax Law and Company Law. He has taught Singapore Private Wealth and Tax Law at a postgraduate level. Vincent read for his doctorate in Tax Law at Downing College, Cambridge, courtesy of an MOE-SMU START Overseas PhD Scholarship. He completed his undergraduate law studies at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with double first class honours, and as the top law student in Trinity College, Mowat Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal.
