Jason Yip is an award-winning social sector leader, with more than 10 years solid experience in humanitarian assistance and youth developments across East and Southeast Asia and conflict zones. He brings a unique combination of skills in operations, policy advocacy and business development, working across private, public sectors and civil society. 

He previously worked as a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for 8 years and managed the organisation’s field offices (with size ranging from 15 to 25 people), in war torn contexts like Palestine, Afghanistan and Myanmar. With his substantial experience from the field, he was later in charge of government affairs and resources mobilisation in four contexts in East and Southeast Asia where he actively engaged state diplomats, corporates and private foundations for raising official contribution to humanitarian assistance and exploring meaningful formulas for private philanthropists to contribute to international humanitarian crisis. He also supported the organisation to explore new financial model and that included a humanitarian impact bond for the health programmes in African countries such as Mali and DRC.

In Hong Kong, Jason was the CEO of MWYO, a family office with the mission to drive better policy discussion on youth matters. Together with his colleagues, Jason developed a think-and-do-tank model and provided their research studies with solid empirical backbone through high impact community projects. The team was particularly strong in civic participation, and they were the leading pioneer in the city on community initiatives such as participatory budgeting and deliberative democracy with the involvement of official resources.

Before his career in the non-profit sector, Jason was a financial analyst in Goldman Sachs. He earned his master’s degree in International Relations from Waseda University in Japan and BBA from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He was also selected as an AsiaGlobal Fellow by the AsiaGlobal Institute in 2021, a prestigious fellowship offered by the HKU for mid-career leaders around the world in international relations and policy.

Jason has received multiple accolades for his work. In 2018, Jason was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Hong Kong government and selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons by Junior Chamber Hong Kong. In 2021, his achievement was further recognized by Tatler as Asia’s Most Influential Hong Kong for the sector of Philanthropy. Two times TEDx speaker in Malaysia and Hong Kong. Jason has been frequently invited to be inspirational speakers for school, university, government and corporate events. His career path and experiences have been covered by media such as SCMP, Xinhua News Agency and Sin Chew Daily. He speaks Chinese, English, French and Japanese, and he is now learning Bahasa. He is now based between Malaysia and Singapore.