Jason Yat-Sen Li

Jason Yat-Sen Li      (politician, lawyer, businessman)
Born	1972 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality	Australian, Chinese
Alma mater	Sydney Grammar School, New York University, University of Sydney
Member of	WEF/Young Global Leaders/2009
Party	Australian Labor Party
Australian corporate lawyer and businessman. WEF/Young Global Leader 2009, when on the board of China-Australia Chamber of Commerce. Heavy Help from ALP leadership figures to start political career.  Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Strathfield In office 12 February 2022 - Present

Jason Yat-Sen Li is a Chinese Australian businessman, corporate lawyer and politician.

While working as a corporate lawyer, he had a brief career stint at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, part of the career of many deep state operatives. From 2007 to 2013, he was on the board of the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce. He was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009.

Pushed into several electorate by leadership figures in the Labor party, he finally won a seat in state parliament in 2022., and elected to state parliament on a small swing to Labor.

Background

Li was born in 1972. He attended Sydney Grammar School as his father's business soon made the family independently wealthy while living at Maroubra Beach. He studied Arts-Law at the University of Sydney and after graduating with his law degree, moved to New York. In New York he completed a Masters of Law from New York University, being fully funded (tuition and living expenses) by a Hauser Global Scholarship.

Business career

Li began his working career as a solicitor for Corrs Chambers Westgarth, working for the law firm until 1999. During this time, Li also briefly worked at the United Nations, for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague, Netherlands, working as an associate to H.E. Judge Lal Vohrah. The Tribunal has been a part of the career of many deep state operatives.

During his time in New York in 2000, he was an Associate in the Corporate Division of Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Upon returning to Sydney, he founded Professional Search Pty Ltd, working as executive director of the legal and accounting digital services platform. He sold this business in 2002. Li then continued his professional career at Insurance Australia Group (IAG). From 2002 to 2004 he worked as the Head of Sustainability. He was then promoted to Head of China Strategy from 2004 to 2005, working on IAG's acquisition of the China Automobile Association as well as strategic investment in China Pacific Insurance Co. In 2005, Li was appointed General Manager, Sales & Marketing for the newly acquired IAG subsidiary China Automobile Association in Beijing.

In 2007, Li founded Yatsen Associates, a boutique cross-border corporate finance advisory firm, specialising in complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions and capital raising mandates. Many of Yatsen Associates' clientele have interests in oil, natural gas, windmills, coal, and agricultural businesses in China and Central Asia.

From 2013, he has been the Executive Chairman of Vantage Asia Holdings. In 2022 it has been reported that the company has a one-page website that lists a non-functioning phone number.

Boards

Li has been heavily involved at his alma mater the University of Sydney as a Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate.. Since 2021, Li has been a Pro-Chancellor of the University.

Previously Li was non-executive director for nine years at the George Institute for Global Health, the region's "leading medical research institute focused on non-communicable diseases". He has was also a Director of the Sydney Institute and is a previous Youth Chair of the NSW Ethnic Communities Council.

From 2007 to 2013, he was on the board of the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce, Beijing including a stint as vice-chair from 2009 to 2011. He has also previously served on the board of the Asia Australia Institute. Li is an advisory board member of think-tank China Matters and is the current President of the Chinese Australian Forum since 2019. Li is also currently on the board of AsiaLink and the advisory board of HaymarketHQ.

Li is also on the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on China.

Politics

Li was elected to the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention as a republican delegate from New South Wales, running as a candidate for "A Multi-Cultural Voice".

Li was asked by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to run as the Labor candidate for the seat of Bennelong at the 2013 federal election even though he did not live in the electorate. His selection came late in the campaign, following the withdrawal of original ALP candidate Jeff Silvestro-Martin due to an ICAC anti-corruption investigation. Li was defeated by the incumbent Liberal MP John Alexander. Li’s wife Lucy is a close friend of Rudd’s daughter Jessica. Li was given the seat of Bennelong by NSW Labor Head Office in absence of an ALP rank and file vote which allows local Labor branch members to democratically vote for their candidate.

In 2021, Li was again endorsed as the third candidate on the ALP's Senate ticket for the next federal election. However, in 2022 he was instead endorsed by NSW Labor as the party's candidate for the 2022 Strathfield state by-election, following the resignation of former party leader Jodi McKay. There was no rank and file vote by the local ALP members in the branches for the electorate. Li retained Strathfield for the ALP at the by-election.

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