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. He has practised, researched and taught tax law in Singapore and the UK for over a decade, and is an Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax). Vincent is the immediate past Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia at SMU. He has consulted for the United Nations and World Bank. Vincent was a Participant on the UN Ad Hoc Group on Crypto Taxation and has served as a Rapporteur for the International Law Association Committee on International Tax Law. He was previously Deputy Head of Tax at a Singapore law firm and regularly consulted for law firms on tax and trusts matters. 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 authored the leading texts: Revenue Law (2027) and Singapore Trusts Law (2021), and served as editor for 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 (twice). He has been awarded research grants by organisations such as the Tax Academy of Singapore and Singapore Ministry of Education, with cumulative grant funding (as a Principal Investigator) over his career totalling more than SGD $1.4 million.
Vincent has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and been a guest lecturer at leading institutions such as the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. He has conducted training for several divisions of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. Vincent has won several teaching awards at both faculty and university levels, including the Most Promising Teacher Award and the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award. At an undergraduate level, 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 Law and International Tax Law at a postgraduate level. Vincent as supervised various undergraduate and postgraduate research projects and has experience serving as a doctoral thesis examiner. 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.
