So Australia is sending a youth delegation to the G20 Yes Summit in Washington DC and one of the delegates just happens to be Asian Australian Liya Xu who is the Finance Rep. Her official title is "
Minister of Finance".
First Australian delegation to G20 announced.
Liya is a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Law student at the Uniersity
of Sydney. She has been a regular and active participant at a range of
tertiary level Model United Nations (MUN) conferences both in Australia
and internationally: at the 2010 Asia Pacific Model United Nations
Conference (AMUNC) in Sydney, Liya was awarded the “Best Delegate” award
in the World Trade Organisation stream. Outside of university she
enjoys reading, volunteering with various charities and improving her
Chinese language skills, with a preference for the Harry Potter series
(movies and books equally); though her favourite books would have to be
The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird, a legacy from high
school English!
On a not so related note, I wonder why so many AAs choose Accounting/Finance? I remember watching a Chinese TV Dating show called Fei Cheng Wu Rao (If you are the one) recently and they have special episodes where the guys and girls were all Chinese,fobs and homegrown, from a particular country (not China). This episode was the Australian edition and about 15 of the 24 girls were accountants, which led one of the hosts to comment on how weird it was that so many of them were in the same industry. The Chinese edition is very mixed has girls from varying industries eg dancers, singers, musicians, teachers, doctors, authors and bosses, but hardly any accountants.
