Doug Chiang is the Design Director for Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, and one of three Concept Design Supervisors for Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. He studied film at UCLA before becoming a Clio Award-winning commercial director and designer. He has also won an Academy Award for his work on Death Becomes Her and is currently the head of the Episode II Art Department.

Chiang started his career as a key animator on the Pee Wee's Playhouse television series before going on to direct and design TV commercials for such major companies as Rhythm and Hues, Digital Productions and Robert Abel and Associates. He won a Clio Award for his work on a Malaysian Airlines ad in 1994.

In 1989, Chiang became a Visual Effects Art Director at Industrial Light & Magic where he worked on such films as Terminator 2, Death Becomes Her, Forrest Gump, Jumanji, Ghost, Back to the Future II, The Mask, and The Doors. He won an Academy Award and a British Academy Award for Death Becomes Her and a second British Academy Award for Forrest Gump.

As a director of independent films, Chiang has won many regional and national awards including top honors in the FOCUS Awards for Mental Block and his paintings are exhibited nationally in a variety of publications.