Yinsey Wang is an in-house lawyer at BlackRock. She has worked on strategic projects such as Brexit and regularly advises on outsourced chief investment officer mandates. She trained at a magic circle law firm and has worked at other international law firms.

In her previous private practice roles, she accumulated extensive experience advising a mix of corporate, investment management and banking clients. She has been involved in various clients’ Brexit planning, regulatory projects and MiFID II implementation. In addition, she has worked on numerous international financing deals and due diligence projects.

She was shortlisted for the Law Society’s Junior Lawyer of the Year Award in 2020 and was highly commended for her contribution to diversity by her previous employer in 2018 through her initiatives with its Multicultural Network.

Yinsey is also a member of the British Museum Friends Advisory Council and volunteers with Intermission Youth Theatre. She is also passionate about sharing stories about individuals’ contributions and regularly writes for East and Southeast Asian-focussed magazines such as Resonate and Fête Chinoise. She also has written for Amber Magazine, which focuses on showcasing inspirational women from different backgrounds. She interviewed gamechangers Chanel Joan Elkayam, one of the youngest people to showcase collections across major Fashion Weeks and Maryam Lawal, founder of House of African Art, an organisation and exhibition-curator which focuses on African and diaspora artwork.

She also participates in mentorship schemes and experience days through organisations such as Big City Bright Future.

Furthermore, Yinsey co-founded Voice ESEA, a non-profit organisation focussing on tackling racism against East and Southeast Asians (ESEAs). Achievements of Voice ESEA include gathering over 22,000 signatures for a petition to the Government and Parliament relating to the increase in COVID-19-fuelled prejudice against ESEAs. Voice ESEA published their findings from Freedom of Information Act 2000 requests to over 40 UK police bodies on police-reported hate crime against ESEAs in 2019 and 2020.

In her spare time, Yinsey is also a hobbyist artist and a co-founder (alongside Lillian Liu and Bella Kotak) of the Enchanted Asian Day initiative which celebrates Asian creators around the world. She was also part of an artwork that became a non-fungible token, “The Empress”, alongside Lillian Liu, Nett Gray and Victoria Leanne. It raised over 4,000 USD on the Foundation platform with 100% of profits being donated to the AAPI Community Fund, supporting communities impacted by anti-Asian hate crimes (fuelled by pandemic-related prejudice) in the United States; and Carbon 180, an NGO dedicated to reducing carbon emissions and supporting renewable energy technologies.