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Jason Yat-sen Li

Jason Yat-sen Li, has an Arts/Law degree with first class honours the University of Sydney and a Masters of Law New York University Law School, where he was Australia's Hauser Global Fellow for 2000 and Convocation Speaker for the graduating class of 2000.

Jason has, throughout his career, campaigned for anti-racism and multiculturalism as the bedrock of democratic societies and successful communities. From 1996 - 1998, Jason worked for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in The Hague, the Netherlands. Jason worked with Sir Ninian Stephen on a number of pioneering cases in international law on genocide and war crimes.

In 1997, Jason returned to Australia to establish a new political party, to combat the racist politics of Pauline Hanson's One Nation that had just achieved great electoral success in Australia. 1997, Jason was also elected to the Australian Constitutional Convention and was instrumental to drafting and brokering support for the model of republican government that was put to Australian voters in the 1999 National Republic Referendum. Jason was appointed by the Prime Minister to the committee directing the Yes Campaign for that referendum.

A passionate believer in social capital, Jason was Co-Chair of the Australian Yes Coalition for the Republic, Youth Chair of the NSW Ethnic Communities Council, Chair of the Community Aid Abroad International Youth Parliament and cultural spokesperson for NSW Tourism during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Jason is presently Deputy Chair of the Australian Republican Movement, a board member of the Sydney Institute and the Asia-Australia Institute (UNSW), a board member of the New South Wales Government's Sydney Metropolitan Strategy Group, as well as a Governor of the Smith Family (one of Australia's largest and oldest charities). Most recently, Jason joined the Board of Directors of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Beijing.