Jack Brady

Jack Brady is an Advisor at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the independent authority responsible for the supervision of financial institutions. At APRA, Jack engages on a variety of issues, domestically and internationally, across banking, financial technology, cyber security, and climate change.

Jack was previously the CEO & Executive Director of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, where he lived for five years. During his time with the Chamber, Jack led a team working to further the bilateral relationship by providing advice to senior business leaders, and education and business services to more than 350 business and individual members. Notably Jack led the concept creation and opening of Australia House by AustCham Shanghai, a 7-storey building dedicated to Australia-China business that was opened by the Australian Trade Minister in 2019. Elsewhere he established the Chamber’s government relations roundtable, oversaw the development of new major annual events, and increased the Chamber’s thought leadership.

Jack was previously the General Manager of AustCham Shanghai. Prior to joining the Chamber, Jack worked in public affairs and corporate communications for Australia’s leading consultancy GRACosway.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours from the University of Sydney.

Jack Butcher

Jack Butcher is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Adelaide. Jack’s research thesis examines Australia’s bilateral engagement in Asia from 2013 to the present. Jack is actively interested in the Australia-China relationship, particularly people-to-people exchanges and Chinese community experiences in Australia. Having lived in China for five years, mainly in Henan Province and Beijing, Jack has first-hand experience of life in rural China and has seen the rise in living standards among Chinese farmers and residents in a fifth-tier city. Jack worked in media and education in China, developed strong local professional and personal ties, and attended Tsinghua University and Sichuan University on exchange during his undergraduate years.

Jack co-authored the upcoming book Different Histories Shared Futures: Dialogues on Australia-China, which seeks to increase mutual understanding amid the strained relationship by examining themes such as literacy and education, legitimacy and state capacity, and soft power and cultural exchange. Jack holds a Master of International Security and a Bachelor of International Studies minoring in Chinese from the University of Adelaide. Jack is proficient in Mandarin with a Henanese accent, enjoys a good 烩面 (Henan-style stewed noodles), and aspires to become a lifelong scholar of Australia-China relations.

James Campbell

James Campbell is a Policy Officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Prior to that, James was Policy Adviser in the Department of Premier and Cabinet (Victoria), the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, where he began his career as a graduate in 2014.

James has longstanding interest in Chinese language and culture, having started studying Chinese (Mandarin) at secondary school and then going on to major in Mandarin at Monash University. Over this time, he has been on multiple visits and study trips to China, including a six-month period teaching English at Wuhan University of Science and Technology. Currently working in DFAT’s East Asia Division, James has a strong interest in the Australia-China bilateral relationship and the Chinese economy.

Born in Melbourne but now living in Canberra, James enjoys going to see live music, playing various sports and enjoying good food, wine and coffee. James has a Bachelor of Arts (Global), Master of Urban Planning, Diploma of Economics and a Graduate Certificate in Public Administration.

Anny Chan

Anny Chan grew up in Hong Kong and studied abroad at the age of 15.

Anny is now a public servant at NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) after five years of consulting experience at PwC. As a former international student, Anny graduated from the University of Sydney with a double degree in Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws. Anny has extensive experience studying and working in the US, UK, Australia, France, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. She speaks Chinese, Cantonese, English, French, and Japanese.

Anny is the Co-Founder of the China Entrepreneur Network (CEN) Sydney and the Secretary at the Australian Chinese Charity Foundation Inc (ACCF). She has a passion for international education and technology.

Anny is the Co-Editor of the published booklet “Helping International Students in Navigating the Australian Job Market” of UNSW. Anny was invited to speak at the “China Dream” TV Program of the Chinese Southeast Television in Fuzhou and at the Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations Conference of Harvard University.

On her time off, you will find Anny practicing her butterfly stroke at the pool, sailing on the sea, dancing on stage or reading a book under a tree.

Alice Chang

Alice is a Perinatal and Child Psychiatrist with a special interest in provision of equitable health care to rural and regional areas. She has studied at Cambridge University on these issues. She enjoys travelling and hope to create more international linkages through this forum.

Xuyang (Jessica) Dong

Xuyang is a climate change analyst at InfluenceMap, where she assesses the lobbying activities and engagement of corporates in the oil and gas industry in Australia.

Prior to this, she was working at the Lowy Institute, researching multiculturalism, gender, Australia-China relations, and development aid in Southeast Asia. She has worked on a wide range of programs at Lowy including Being Chinese in Australia Poll, Southeast Asia Aid and Development Finance Map, and Asia Power Index.

She holds a BA in Law/Criminology, and a MA in International Relations with a specialization in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Sydney.

Growing up in China and later moving to Australia for her master's degree has enabled Xuyang to understand both cultures profoundly, it has been demonstrated through her early work in her research on foreign policy and the link between global feminist advocacy and Chinese feminism. Through this cross-cultured experience, her interests and passion for deepening the conversation between two nations have furthered.

Xuyang is also passionate about promoting multiculturalism and gender equality in foreign policy, advocating for more climate-related dialogues in multilateral cooperation, and generating more climate-positive initiatives in development aid.

Bo Han

Bo is a Data Science Chapter Lead at Endeavour Group in Australia. His work is to leverage advanced technologies and massive information to tackle complex real-world challenges and create a more sociable future. This includes developing machine learning models to recommend the best services to customers, transforming the way of doing business in a more sustainable and responsible manner, as well as building a workforce planning solution that weaves in compliance, fairness and transparency, while achieving the cost effectiveness goals.

He obtained his PhD at Melbourne University and is an expert in artificial intelligence. He has worked at Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Kaplan and Accenture on various data driven projects. He currently holds 2 US patents, 1 software copyright and has been reviewers for many top-tier journals and conferences.

As a Chinese citizen working many years in Australia, Bo has been dually influenced by the cultures and values from both countries, and managed to develop a balanced view for what he has seen and felt. He is looking forward to learning more inspiring, thought-provoking views and experience from other delegates in the ACYD Dialogue.

Alice Hong

Alice is a Project Manager at Meta based in Singapore. She helps build solutions to solve media integrity issues focusing on building safer experiences for users across Meta’s platforms.

Alice possesses experiences in China, Australia and South-East Asia: working across strategy, technology and operations. Alice started her professional journey at the Australia-China Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. Since then, Alice has also worked as a strategy-consultant advising on technology implementation, change management and business-strategy to multinationals across Australia and in Singapore where she worked in a Chinese tech-unicorn, helping them define their market entry strategy for new products into the South-East Asian region, before joining Meta.

Alice is involved in community-building across the themes of youth advocacy, education and engagement. Alice was the inaugural Singapore chapter-lead of the Australia-ASEAN Strategic Youth Partnership an NGO that bridges connections between young people from across ASEAN and Australia and sits on the Risk & Audit Committee of the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA), a charity that backs young people across the country to beat injustice and create long-lasting change for all.

Alice is Australian born Chinese and is fluent in Mandarin. Alice holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne.

Nigel Hutton

Father, son, brother, husband, teacher, councillor, board director, lion, and volunteer. Nigel is a committed leader with a lifelong desire to make a difference for community. With career exposure across all three levels of government in Australia, and a strategic, public facing executive role these past nine years. Nigel is the youngest Councillor ever elected in Livingstone Shire Council history starting service in 2013. Nigel also teaches secondary history and geography in Yeppoon, Central Queensland.

Nigel is a Hansard Scholar, World City Summit – Young Leaders alumni and attended Griffith University, the London School of Economics and Central Queensland University for studies in Politics and International Relations, the Hansard Scholars Program and a Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning.

Nigel is committed to learning, understanding, and advancing the Australia China relationship. With signed Sister City agreements with Yangzhong, China, each high school in the shire has adopted a sister school. Nigel passionately believes we need to create connections which are woven through the social fabric of arts, education, people-to-people interactions, and the sharing of cultural experience and history. Nigel welcomes this opportunity to help transform his regional area’s relationship with China but to influence the role of local governments across Australia.

Torry Ko

Torry is a Strategic Projects Manager at TikTok, working in the Global Business Solutions department for the last two years. His main responsibilities include planning & executing strategic initiatives to help grow advertising revenue on TikTok, whilst partnering up with monetization teams across the regions to facilitate cross-border sharing of knowledge & market insights. Torry had also spent 4 months in TikTok’s headquarters in Beijing, where he was able to grow a deeper understanding of China’s technology landscape & leadership in the digital era.

Prior to TikTok, Torry worked at Facebook Singapore and Amazon Japan, where he developed strong insights into the success mechanisms behind US silicon valley corporations and gain exposure to global operations. Having lived in 5 countries, traveled to 50, and as a speaker of English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian, Torry is committed to building a strong expertise in the Asia-Pacific region. As a fellow incoming candidate in the Global Executive MBA at INSEAD, Torry is motivated to continue his professional growth.

As a passionate globe-trotter, Torry’s most favorite countries to have visited are Iran, North Korea, and Israel. He is enthusiastic about international affairs and loves to explore history & culture in various parts of the world.

Linda Lau

Linda is a senior associate in the corporate M&A team of a global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. One of her legal practice focuses is on cross-border investments particularly China-related M&As. She has advised on numerous deals involving Chinese investors investing in Australia as well as Australian companies seeking to expand trade and find supply chain solutions in China. This cuts through major industries important to both economies, including resources, agriculture, education, tourism and consumer goods.
Linda was travelling between Shanghai and Hong Kong with family in her younger days, before moving to Sydney where she finished her Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Business degrees and began the journey of learning Australian slangs. She is now based in Brisbane and enjoying the beautiful skyline of the sunshine state.

Linda appreciates and benefits greatly from the symbiotic nature of the Australia-China relationship, and is passionate about promoting and contributing to the awareness and understanding of the bilateral relationship in both her professional and personal networks.

Mowen Lee

Mowen is risk management, internal audit and governance leader passionate about helping organisations create value through better decision making. Mowen has extensive experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry and is currently a Senior Risk Manager at Hannover Re. He previously held a number of leadership and consulting roles at QBE, Victorian Managed Insurance Authority and EY. Mowen is a Chartered Accountant and holds a MBA from Melbourne Business School. During his MBA, he went on a semester exchange to London Business School.

Outside of work, Mowen volunteers as a Board Member for a community services organisation in North Sydney. On weekends he volunteers as a jazz pianist for residents at an aged care facility.

Feifei Liao

Feifei Liao is the founder of the ‘Feifei Curiosity’ production, dedicated to championing inclusion, diversity and equity through exhibitions, dance, films and shared experiences. She is passionate about facilitating the culture and arts exchange between China and Australia. Multi-passionate and multi-disciplinary, Feifei is the co-founder of the social enterprise ‘Co-inventors,’ supporting organisations to co-design and manage community engagement programs. She is also the co-founder of the Not-for-Profit organisation ‘Story is Connection,’ amplifying international students’ voices through theatre and films. As the project officer of the PACE Leadership Program at the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, she is committed to implementing intersectionality and feminism with a strength-based approach to support migrant and refugee women to take informal and formal leadership roles. For over a decade, Feifei has worked with education institutes, service providers, local councils and the state government to achieve an inclusive, strategic and sustainable International Education. She is a joint winner of International Alumnus of the Year for the 2020 Victorian International Education Award. She is a courageous mental health speaker for Batyr and a recovery educator for Discovery College. She loves dancing, travelling, cooking and meditating in nature. She is full of love for life.

Shelly Maller

Shelly is an early career leader in international education and global engagement. As a leader of teams responsible for supporting international partnerships and global student mobility, China has been at the forefront of that activity. China is an important country partner for international education and Shelly has supported the establishment of several agreements and a range of activities including research cooperation, transnational education and student mobility, with partners in China, across a range of areas including health, the environment and the arts, and shaped Griffith students’ mobility to the region as an area of strategic focus and aligned with the Australian Government’s goal of increasing the Asia literacy of Australian youth. Shelly’s focus on driving participation in student mobility to China, including for work-related placements, has attracted funding support for a number of mobility initiatives and her dedication to this has resulted in the prolongation of several key relationships with institutions in China, an increase in the number of students traveling to China to live, study, and work, and a strong platform from which to build understanding and connection through teaching and learning, and industry engagement.
Shelly leads the International Partnerships team at Griffith University and holds a Bachelor of Business in Tourism and Human Resources Management from CQUniversity and postgraduate qualifications in TESOL and Health Sciences from Griffith University and Deakin University.

Damian Meduri

Damian Meduri believes Australia's future prosperity is tied to our engagement with Asia and seeks to build deeper ties between Australian and Asian businesses. After graduating from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelors of International Studies in 2018, Damian is the Senior Associate for Greater China Global Markets team within the NSW Government Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade where he jointly leads on NSW’s trade and economic relationship with the Chinese markets. Damian has produced large scale bilateral events such as the 27th and 28th NSW-Guangdong Joint Economic Meetings, coordinated international export programs such as the NSW Going Global Export Program, worked with investors and clients from across Asia, and provided advice to the government. He has built a reputation for professionalism, extensive experience in strategic design, program management, and delivery across international trade and investment.

Damian is also currently pursuing his Masters of International Business with the University of Sydney part-time. He is a Mandarin speaker, enjoys public speaking, a recipient of the 2016 Westpac Asian Exchange Scholarship to Shanghai Jiaotong University, a member of Asia Society Australia's Generation A, and one of several Australian delegates to Peking University's Yenching Global Symposium in 2022.

Fan Ni

Fan Ni (倪帆) is an early-career researcher in Chinese and comparative literature, with an Environmental humanities approach. She holds a Master’s degree in English Language and Literature from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou. And she will receive her PhD degree at the University of Western Australia in December 2022. Her doctoral project investigates the representation of environmental issues in post-2000 Chinese fiction, where environmental problems challenge the traditional environmental imagination evoking green “rural hometowns”.

Fan is concerned about environmental issues and how our societies respond to them, and she is also passionate about education, language and culture.

Fan taught both Chinese and English in both China and Australia, She taught mandarin at the Confucius Institute of UWA in 2016, where she also established the first Chinese poetry club in Perth with a group of friends. She also taught undergraduate units at UWA, such as “Writing the Environment” and “Contemporary Chinese Society”.

Fan is a member of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA) and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). And she has presented her research at various forums, including the CSAA Biennial Conference (2020, 2022) and the 7th China-Australia Transcultural Studies Symposium (CATS).

Clare Murphy

Clare Murphy is a national security and foreign policy professional experienced in engaging government, industry and academia to address policy challenges and achieve national interest objectives. Clare is a Principal Policy Adviser with the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet’s Economic Development and International Branch, and has previously used her expertise in international relations, trade and national security in roles with Victoria Police and Austrade. As a former Melbourne Co-Chapter Director and Media Lead of the Australia-China Young Professionals Initiative, Clare has worked with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australian Football League, Melbourne and St Kilda Football Clubs to organise events with high-profile panellists to deeper understanding of the local Australia-China professional community and connect practitioners to contribute in new and innovative ways. In her previous role as a researcher with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Clare’s policy analysis was featured on the BBC, ABC Radio, Hack on Triple J and 3AW Radio and across Fairfax and News Corporation media. In 2020, Clare was recognised as one of Young Australians in International Affairs’ Young Women to Watch in International Affairs. She holds Master’s degrees in international relations and counter-terrorism studies, a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Modern Languages from Monash University.

Daniel Norman

Daniel Norman is a private equity investor specializing in Africa and high growth economies. Most recently he spent 10 years at global alternatives asset manager TPG in London, where he was a Principal in The Rise Fund, TPG’s social impact fund. During his tenure Daniel built TPG’s investment operations in Africa and led the firm’s USD 200m investment into Airtel Money, a leading mobile money provider operating in 14 countries in Sub Saharan Africa. He served as a Board member of Uganda’s Pearl Dairy Farms, and has a first-hand appreciation of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路) is impacting African economies.

Prior to joining TPG in 2012, Daniel was an Analyst in J.P. Morgan’s investment banking division in Melbourne and Sydney, where he advised Australian corporations on M&A and capital raising during the global financial crisis.

Daniel holds an MSc in Economics for Development with Distinction from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne. He speaks conversational Mandarin, spent six months living and studying in Beijing in 2010, and is an avid supporter of the West Coast Eagles football club.

Cormac Power

Cormac is currently a policy officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he works in the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations.

His role in the Foundation's business engagement team focuses on strengthening Australia-China business ties and finding areas for deeper engagement that are in both countries' national interest, such as climate change and the transition to low-emissions technology. He also leads on the Foundation's China-literacy building work for state and territory governments and the private sector.

Cormac has been involved in the Australia-China space for many years, having served multiple terms on the executive of ACYA UWA as well as taking on the role of National People-to-People Director on the ACYA National Executive. He is deeply committed to strengthening business and people-to-people links between Australia and China.

Prior to joining DFAT, Cormac was a graduate economist at Treasury, where he worked on migration economics, education, and challenges facing the not-for-profit sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cormac is originally from Perth, where he holds a BA with First Class Honours from the University of Western Australia. He has also studied political economy at Tsinghua University as a Westpac Asian Exchange Scholar and advanced Mandarin at Peking University.

Chengxue Helena Qin

Scientist & Entrepreneur. Laboratory Head, National Heart Foundation Future Fellow, MRFF REDI Industry Fellow, Monash University; Chair, ASCEPT Cardiovascular Special Interest Group; AcVA Emerging Leaders Committee, Academic Drug Discovery Consortium. Prestigious awards include Monash Future Research Leader, CSANZ Ralph Reader Investigator, ISHR Young Investigator, American Heart Association Paul Dudley White International Scholar, “40-under-40” Asian-Australian etc.

Dr Qin is an emerging translational pharmacologist with a research vision to develop “pro-resolving medicines” for cardiopulmonary disease. Dr Qin completed her PhD at the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and School of Chemistry (Uni Melb), before taking up a post-doctoral position at Baker Institute (2011). She was promoted to the Group Leader and awarded a 5-year Baker Fellowship (2017), and recruited to Drug Discovery Biology Theme at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences to establish her independent laboratory (2020). Her team is driving the resolution pharmacology R&D program towards commercialization, by employing innovative and multi-disciplinary approaches spanning molecular & integrative pharmacology, rational drug design and commercialisation. Helena is passionate about commercialising research, taking it out of the lab and into the lives of heart disease patients, as well as playing a part in her community to break the “diversity ceiling”.

Jiawen Tan

Jiawen worked in the NSW Government for the Sydney Opera House Trust within the Legal, Company Secretariat and Tourism departments for 9.5 years before joining IBM as an Attorney, advising IBM Australia and IBM China on major transactions and dispute resolution.

Since 2017, Jiawen has been the Chief of Staff for Huawei Technologies (Australia) Pty Ltd, providing advice to the Board and Senior Management on Australian legislations, regulations and policies. She was elected as a NSW Young Professional Ambassador for 2018-2019 by the Australia China Business Council (ACBC).

Jiawen holds a Juris Doctor Degree (J.D.) in Law from UNSW, a Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration from Renmin University, a Certificate of Governance Practice from the Governance Institute of Australia and completed exchange programs at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and University of California, Berkeley. She also obtained certification as an In-house Counsel Certified (ICC) by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and a Nationally Accredited Mediator.

Jiawen is passionate about languages and culture. She is a native speaker of Cantonese and Mandarin, and is also fluent in conversational Korean. She is keen to meet other ACYD delegates and participate in the discussion of key issues pertinent to the Australia-China relationship.

Nicole Tang

Nicole Tang is a banking and finance solicitor at the Sydney office of Allens & Overy, one of the most prestigious “Magic Circle” international law firms. She has been actively involved in the firm’s China Desk advisory works and business events. Nicole had previously worked as in-house legal counsel with Bank of China and Standard Chartered Bank. She has 10 years’ experience in advising global banks, and Chinese state-owned enterprises in banking regulatory and financial transaction matters, especially cross-boarders transactions involved multiple jurisdictions.

Nicole migrated from Guangzhou, China to Australia as a teenager and speak Cantonese, Mandarin and English. She has a deep affinity for her Chinese roots and Australian upbringing, and is committed to optimizing international trade and inbound investments into Australia, and also unlocking opportunities for both China and Australia in a mutually beneficial manner.

Nicole has Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws (UNSW) degrees and recently started another learning journey to pursue Master of Applied Finance. Outside of work, Nicole enjoys cooking, bushwalking, drawing and is growing her interest in floral arrangement.

Caojing Wang

Caojing was born and raised in Sichuan province, China and migrated to Australia in 2001 to study English and since then, he has been living and working here with his family. Caojing is the sales manager who is looking after the Non-China region for Fortescue Metals Group. Prior to his current role, he is working in the capacity of logistic scheduler for Australian largest transportation company Linfox.

Caojing has the background in Marketing and Economics, he holds a Bachelor of Marketing & Economics degree from Monash University in Melbourne. He also received the scholarship to complete Master of Business Administration specialised in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from University of Western Australia in Perth.

Caojing has more than 10 years of experience in resource and mining industry, which plays a very important part for Australian economy. For the past 5 years, Caojing travels frequently around the world especially in the ASEAN region to promote his company and his culture. He has strong believes that with the better understanding of the culture, both Australia and China will benefit from the close relationship built by its people.

Huafei Xue

Huafei (Patrick) Xue currently working as a researcher at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and East Asia Forum at Crawford school of public policy at Australian National University (ANU), tutoring one master’s economics fundamental course at Crawford School and also operating a coffee shop in Canberra. Prior to his current role, he was work in China Securities Co., Ltd., and Haitong Securities Co., Ltd. in China. Patrick holds a Master of International Development Economics from ANU and a Bachelor of Physics from Jilin University (China). Patrick will start his Ph.D. with the topic of Australia’s economic relations with China and climate change strategies, exploring how Australia and China can work together through economic channels in the area of climate change. He also has a keen interest in APEC, RCEP, CPTPP and other free trade agreements in which China and Australia participate or have the potential to participate together.

Frank Ye

Frank Ye is a Chartered Accountant and providing business services and advisory services to Aboriginal organizations within a range of sectors including cultural heritage, community development, and Native Title sectors.

As well as assisting Aboriginal organizations with their compliance obligations, Frank has worked on the development, implementation and review of management reporting systems and strategic plans for a range of Aboriginal organizations and listed mining companies.

Frank focuses on business services and advisory with corporate governance experience to ensure all levels of a client’s organization are aligned to achieve their goals. He also providing supports to community engagements and becoming board members of Not-For-Profit organizations, such as Australia Regional Development, Pilbara University Centre, and St Luke College.

Pauline Yeung

Fluent in English, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, and Cantonese, Pauline Yeung excels in multiple fields in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. She was named an Asia 21 Young Leader by Asia Society and is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Finance Forum.

Pauline began her career at Morgan Stanley and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority before becoming one of the youngest political appointees in the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, specializing in financial policy, with a portfolio that covered fintech, green finance, and asset and wealth management. In her current role as a non-profit leader, she has also curated sustainability programs for business leaders from twenty-two jurisdictions and organized events to promote understanding in U.S.-China relations.

Pauline is also committed to engaging the leaders of tomorrow. She has been a mentor and judge for the South China Morning Post Student of the Year Awards, Sing Tao Interschool Debating Competition, and Sachs Global Fellowship at her alma mater Princeton University, where she was a Hang Seng Scholar and Sir Edward Youde Scholar. She received an M.A. with distinction from Central Saint Martins.

Kelly Zhan

Kelly Zhan is a lawyer with experience advising multinational companies in healthcare, manufacturing and mining industries. In her current role with Cochlear, she oversees the legal and compliance function in Asia Pacific and Latin America where she is responsible for building a high-performance team committed to delivering commercial and strategic legal advice across multiple jurisdictions, including China. Her role requires her to build strong relationships with Cochlear's China operations and to facilitate cross-cultural dialogue between the China operations and head office in Australia.

As a Chinese-Australian, Kelly is passionate about Australia-China relations and believes that leaders from private sector organisations can play positive role in shaping the bilateral dialogue to drive win-win outcomes.

Kelly holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Chinese) from the University of New South Wales and is an admitted legal practitioner in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

Outside of work, Kelly enjoys travelling and experiencing new cultures, and is currently looking to improve her Mandarin and Cantonese while attempting to learn Spanish.

Mengzhu Zhang

Mengzhu is a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. Her Ph.D. research focuses on the development of China’s Antarctic science program and its engagement in the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). In addition to her research on China's Antarctic program, she has published several articles on popular Antarctic topics, such as plastic pollution and COVID-19. Mengzhu hopes to make use of her bilingual advantage to promote better mutual understanding and trust between China and other countries on Antarctic issues. Mengzhu holds a Bachelor of Marine Science from the Ocean University of China and a Bachelor of Marine and Antarctic Science with Honours (Physical Oceanography) from the University of Tasmania.

Mengyi Lu

Mengyi Lu, also known as Clara Lu, is the Senior Product Developer and Product Manager of a major supermarket chain based in Australia working side by side with their China office. Clara’s professional and educational background has revolved around Australia and China for the past 20 years.

One of many responsibilities within the export team Clara holds is to identify, develop and foster key relationships with relevant industry, government and commercial stakeholders in Australia and export markets to promote product’s unique value proposition and to target, maximise and facilitate trade development opportunities, which in turn leads businesses to export growth.

Clara is particularly drawn to the theme for this year’s ACYD conference from an industrial professional’s lens. The international trade is a long-lasting hot topic and a significant focus of many countries including Australia and China. Taking from a border perspective, how Australia and China embrace emerging values will benefit many businesses in both countries.

Clara holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Shenzhen University, China and a Master of Food Science degree from the University of Melbourne and she is an Engineers Australia accredited Food technologist. Clara is fluent in Cantonese, English, Mandarin, and Shanghainese.

Jason Zhang

Jason Zhang is a motivated professional with experience in tax, financial analysis and investment reporting. Born and raised in China, he finished his bachelor's degree in Optical Science. Then he moved to Australia to pursue a Master of Professional Accounting degree at Monash University.

After graduation, he worked in accounting practices as a Tax/Pension Accountant, then worked in the Kraft Heinz company as a Financial Analyst. He now works at IFM Investors as an Investment Accountant.

He is a member of the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand, and a CFA level II candidate. He volunteers as a mentor at Monash Business School.

His hobbies include running, swimming and reading.