Board of Directors
Jade LITTLE / 李瑶华
Chair
Jade’s career has been focused in the resources industries. She is currently chief advisor to the COO of Newmont corporation in the US. Her previous work experience in Australia has included working for BHP across technical, production and strategic roles, at UBS Investment Bank as a director of Mining Research, and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. In China she has worked as a Project Manager assisting in technical reviews used for mining related Initial Public Offerings for RungePincockMinarco based in Beijing.
Jade holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Mining Engineering), a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) and a Bachelor of Arts (Chinese) from the University of Queensland (UQ). She also has a Master of Science in Global Finance jointly awarded by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and New York University’s (NYU) Stern Business School. She is a member of the UQ’s School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering Industry Advisory Board. She was awarded The Australian Financial Review BOSS Young Executive of the Year in 2017.
James Tang / 唐轩皓
Executive Director
James has been passionate about bridging the language and cultural differences between Australia and China through people to people exchanges since his university studies in Hangzhou in 2007 and Taipei in 2009. His interests in understanding China have taken him to work as a consultant in Beijing from 2013-2017 for RPM Global in mining advisory.
James's professional career in Australia has been diverse, ranging from a FIFO engineer in the Pilbara for Rio Tinto, a senior management consultant at Deloitte Consulting and corporate developer at Fortescue Metals Group. His latest endeavour has been building and launching a fast-growing startup called Ready Team One, a social Virtual Reality (VR) gaming company that has sold its product internationally.
As an Australian born Chinese raised in Perth, James completed studies in Engineering (Mechanical), Arts (Chinese) and MBA from the University of Western Australia. He has been a proud member of the ACYD management team since 2016.
MATHEW BENJAMIN / 贝馬玉
Non-Executive Director
Mathew Benjamin served as the Executive Director of the Australia-China Youth Dialogue from 2019 to 2022, after participating as a delegate in 2018 and a speaker in 2017.
Mathew holds a Master of International Business and Law from the University of Sydney. Mathew has also undertaken coursework at East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, and was awarded the Taiwan Ministry of Education MTC Scholarship to undertake Chinese studies at the National Taiwan National University, Taipei.
PATRICIA SAW / 苏丽燕
Non-Executive Director
Trish is the Lead Counsel managing the Land Acquisition, Planning and Environment team in the Victorian Government Solicitor's Office (VGSO).
She has a long-standing interest in China sparked by her first visit to China on a school trip in year 9. While at university she completed a major in Mandarin Chinese as part of an Arts degree, a Diploma in Languages (Mandarin Chinese), and two study trips to China including a year at South East University in Nanjing on a Chinese government scholarship, while concurrently studying Law at Monash University. Trish graduated with first class honours in her Bachelor of Laws, with an honours thesis analysing the then-proposed carbon tax and pilot emission trading schemes in China within the framework of international environmental law.
Before commencing her current role at the VGSO, Trish worked at Corrs Chambers Westgarth and then subsequently at Allens. During that time, she combined her interests in China and environmental law in sectors with higher flows of foreign investment from China, particularly in renewable energy, agribusiness and urban development. Trish is passionate about the potential for greater connection and growth in Australian and Chinese carbon markets, and investment in renewable energy and green technologies.