Dr. Charles S. Yang is Chairman of The Washington Times Foundation, established in 1984 to encourage the highest ideals of faith, family, freedom, and service. TWTF takes its name from one of America’s most influential daily news companies, The Washington Times, based in the nation’s capital. In association with The Washington Times newspaper and other media outlets, the TWTF seeks to engage leaders in dialogue about the global challenges to peace. As part of that endeavor, TWTF holds a weekly online seminar called The Washington Brief, a policy forum exploring how to achieve peace in Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula, broadcast from Washington, DC.
He also serves as International Chairman of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), a global NGO that operates in General Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. UPF advocates for conflict resolution among nations, races & cultures and faith traditions. In his work with UPF, Dr. Yang has been instrumental in launching and directing a global network of thousands of Ambassadors for Peace, an organization of volunteers who are activist leaders in the public sphere including diplomacy, clergy, business, academia, mass communication media, politics and every other field of human endeavor. UPF has National Chapters in over 120 nations.
Dr. Yang's peacebuilding efforts have led him to global hotspots. From 2001, following the 9/11 terror attacks in the U.S, until the present, he has led the UPF’s Middle East Peace Initiative, which carries out interfaith programs designed to build bridges of mutual understanding, respect and cooperation among Jews, Christians, Muslims and people from all faith traditions in the Middle East. He has conducted dozens of interfaith pilgrimages for more than 30,000 men and women who visited the Holy Land from all over the world to engage in peaceful dialogue.
As part of this interfaith experience, Dr. Yang served as the founding Chairman of the American Clergy Leadership Conference, which fosters mutual understanding and cooperation among faith leaders in the US. Based on the success of ACLC, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, who has led the world peace movement since the passing of her husband, Rev. Moon, took the interfaith efforts to the net level and established the World Christian Leadership Conference with a gathering of 25,000 global faith leaders in New Jersey in 2019.
He has also held leadership roles overseeing the Wyndham New Yorker Hotel, which has 1,100 guest rooms and conference facilities in the heart of New York City, along with the US Marine Corporation Board, a major international fishery business in the USA.