Youwei Yang is Chief Economist and Vice President of Mining at BIT Mining Limited (NYSE: BTCM). He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and specializes in financial economics, derivatives, and fintech, particularly crypto and blockchain. He has frequently appeared in Coindesk, CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, BlockWorks, The Block and KitCo. Before joining BTCM, he was Director of Financial Analytics at StoneX (Nasdaq: SNEX), a Fortune 100 company offering diverse financial services, where he managed commodity analysis, data modeling, crypto research, and institutional digital asset trading. He also teaches fintech courses to masters and MBA students at several top universities in China.
