The five personalities of China

Society & Culture

Jason Yatsen-Li, an entrepreneur, corporate advisor and opinion-leader, explores how China’s different personalities help explain its seemingly contradictory actions in the South China Sea, climate change stance, stock market gyrations, a revolution in cross-border ecommerce and the massive One Belt One Road strategy. For everyone interested in Australia’s engagement with China. Jason Yatsen-Li is one of Australia’s leading and most innovative corporate advisors. Jason is currently Chairman of Vantage Group Asia, a commercial group with offices in Sydney, Beijing and Shanghai and interests in mining and resources, technology and financial services businesses in Asia. Jason is a Director of the George Institute for Global Health, Beijing-based research and policy firm China Policy and a Governing Member of the Smith Family. Jason was also past Vice Chair of the Australia-China Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, as well as formerly a director of the Sydney Institute, the National Centre for Volunteering and the New South Wales Government’s Sydney Metropolitan Strategy Group. Prior to founding his advisory firm—Yatsen Associates—Jason was Head of China Strategy and Head of Sustainability for Insurance Australia Group, Australasia's largest general insurance company. Before that, he was an M & A lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and Corrs Chambers Westgarth in Australia. Jason has also worked for the United Nations and is the former Vice Chairman of the Australia-China Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. Jason speaks fluent English, Mandarin, Cantonese and German. In 2009 he was appointed a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos and currently serves of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for China.