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Nat Wei, Baron Wei
Social Entrepreneur and a member of the House of Lords
Business. Charities. Community. Politics. Social Enterprise.
Lord Wei is a social entrepreneur, interested in social reform, a member of the House of Lords and was previously an adviser to the UK Government on their Big Society project.
Lord Wei’s Chinese ancestry can be traced back to a village in Zhuhai, on the southern coast of the Guangdong province. His ancestral home is 2 villages away from that of Sun Yat-sen, whom incidentally, Lord Wei enjoys reading and learning about.
He is fluent in English, has a working knowledge of Chinese Cantonese, French and German. Lord Wei is also currently actively learning Chinese Mandarin from the Confucious Insitute of Business at the London School of Economics.
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Councillor Allan Siao Ming Witherick BSc(Hons) (Lond:UCL) FRSA
Liberal Democrat politicianCharities. Community. Politics.
Full job titles:
- Liberal Democrat Spokesman Adult Care Services, County Councillor, Hertfordshire County Council
- Liberal Democrat District Councillor, St Albans City & District Council
- Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate Broxbourne 2010
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Jackson Ng 黄精明
Parliamentary Liaison Officer at UK Parliament, Solicitor AdvocateBusiness. Community. Law. Politics.
Jackson Ng is originally from The Netherlands but has spent the majority of his life living in the United Kingdom, in addition to having lived in Australia, Singapore and The Netherlands.
He is equally fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and has a working knowledge of Dutch.
Jackson works very closely with The Lord Wei of Shoreditch at the House of Lords on various areas such as the British Chinese community, Britain - China related matters and has been involved in the setting up of the All Party Parliamentary Group on East Asian Businesses where he is now also serving as its Parliamentary Liaison Officer in the Houses of Parliament. Along with Lord Wei, he also spends a considerate amount of his time engaging with the British Chinese community and not-for-profit organisations. He is also assisting Lord Wei in co-designing social and civic projects which will look to help the British Chinese community.
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Dr Teck Keong Khong
General Medical Practitioner and Forensic Physician, and Parliamentary Candidate of the Conservative PartyCommunity. Politics. Science.
Dr Teck Khong read medicine at Sheffield University and law at Cardiff University. Although his medical practice is in Leicester, Dr Khong also consults at the Out-of-Hours medical centre in Danetre Hospital, Daventry. Additionally, he is a forensic physician for the Northamptonshire Police.
He is a member of the Local Medical Committee, a past-president of the Leicestershire and Rutland Division of the BMA and a past-president of the Leicestershire Medico-Legal Society. Although he has not been selected for the 2010 General Election, he remains an approved parliamentary candidate of the Conservative Party.
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George Lee
Parliamentary CandidateBusiness. Community. Politics.
I have a photo of a ramshackle pig shed. It’s a picture of where I was born. Sometimes, searching for other things, I come across it. It’s another world now, so far away it’s like looking the wrong way through a telescope. But it’s where I began.
My parents left rural poverty in Hong Kong for Britain when I was one. My brothers and sisters and I stayed, in the care of a family friend. It was a big change, but not what my parents had hoped. Instead of going to school, we made plastic flowers in a toy factory for the woman they had trusted with our care. I was ten when we joined my parents. I knew one English word when I arrived; ‘tomorrow’.
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Photo courtesy of The Pearl Foundation
Louise Wong
SolicitorCommunity. Law.
Louise was the Winner of The Pearl Award (an annual ceremony held to celebrate UK Chinese achievements) for Most Promising Newcomer in 2006.
As a brief background about me. I was born in England. At 17 years of age I read law at Derby University and graduated with an honours degree in LLB Law with European Studies. Following a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice at 21 I was a trainee solicitor at Derby Law Centre for 2 years before I fully qualified at 23 to become the youngest solicitor in England and Wales in October 2005, as attested by the Law Society.
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Lili Zhao
Managing Editor of China EthosBusiness. Community. Culture. Media.
Lili Zhao graduated with first class honours in Financial & Business Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London following her Media Studies from Hammersmith and West London college. Upon graduating, she first worked in the financial sector before joining Shanghai media Ltd for its China Ethos magazine.
Lili is high on life. She is full of curiosity and contradictions, and perpetually searching for the meaning of life – as well as for more beautiful dresses.
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Steven Cheung
MEP Candidate and Radio PresenterCommunity. Film, TV & Radio. Politics.
Steven Dominique Cheung is a British Chinese Filipino seeking support to stand in the June 4th European Election. He is the first British Chinese-Filipino MEP Candidate and the World's youngest.
Born in Hong Kong on 7 October 1989 and grew up in London with two younger brothers, Steven's father is Chinese and his mother is Filipino. His family settled in the United Kingdom in 2002.
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Photo: Chris Hall
Andy Cheung
Writer and PerformerArts. Community. Culture. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Theatre.
Andy is a writer and performer and has worked with celebrated theatre companies such as English National Opera, Yellow Earth Theatre and Twisting Yarn Theatre Company.
Andy’s plays have been staged as rehearsed readings at The Royal Court, Chelsea Centre, The Albany and Soho Theatre. He wrote the show script for The Chinese Stage Circus at the Hackney Empire, and the story for Yellow Earth’s ‘Chinese Two-Step 1925-2005’, a multi-disciplinary performance including drama, music and dance that was performed by the Chinese communities in Trafalgar Square.
Andy’s play ‘Peace Pagoda’, inspired by the monument in London’s Battersea Park, received a special preview at The Linbury, Royal Opera House in 2007.
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Ya-Lan Chuang 庄雅兰
Business Executive and Cross Culture Communications ConsultantBusiness. Community. Education. Politics.
Since 1998 Yalan has been working as a professional Mandarin language and cross-cultural communication training manager and consultant to individuals, corporate organisations and governmental bodies in the UK, France, and Asia.
Outside of the training arena, Yalan has also successfully employed her background in business and finance to facilitate multinationals, financial institutions, European Commission on a number of Euro-Sino projects ( approx. €2 million/project), which involved strategy advice on the pre Joint-Venture (JV) due diligence, integration of multicultural teams post JV, high-street fashion branding and marketing penetration in emerging markets.
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