Qualifications

BA, MBA, VL

Lucy has more than 20 years’ experience with the New Zealand government in immigration and ethnic affairs.  Lucy used to manage operations for the Office of Ethnic Communities, part of the NZ Department of Internal Affairs.  Lucy lead work with ethnic communities on business and trade opportunities; government responsiveness to ethnic people’s needs; and social harmony. 

Born in Beijing, China and migrated to New Zealand in 2000, Lucy has completed her Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the University of Auckland.  She is the recipient of 2007 Rid McBride Public Service Management Award which supported her career development within the public sector.  During her study of MBA at the University of Auckland, Lucy was the only student of 75 students who had two A+, which are in the subjects of ‘Manage Business Growth’ and ‘International Projects’.  Her other top academic scores are in the ‘Strategy’, ‘Economics’ and ‘Marketing’. 

Lucy started work with the New Zealand Immigration in Beijing in 1994 and carried various roles from Immigration Manager to Branch Manager to Strategic Project Manager.  She has worked for Department of Internal Affairs since March 2011 as National Operations Manager in the Office of Ethnic Affairs (now called Office of Ethnic Communities) for 5.5 years before her maternity leave.  This background has given her extensive experience in stakeholders’ engagement, strategy setting and a good knowledge of how government agencies works in Commonwealth countries like New Zealand.  Lucy has been invited to be the Guest Speaker at various public events talking about Leadership and Diversity Management. Lucy has worked as a part time CEO for a private education company and started her own business in education and business in UK.  Lucy has successfully delivered a business seminar for a small group of Chinese CEOs in UK including CEO & CFO of Huawei UK on Reputation Management and Branding at the Baroness’ Mansion in May 2018.

Being a board member for various Non-for-profit organisations in New Zealand and UK has involved her in community, volunteering, charity and youth development initiatives.  She is passionate about excellent service delivery and making positive connections for international programmes.  Lucy believes that with hard work and determination, dreams and goals can be achieved in life.

Her spare time interests include nurturing good leadership for young people and for community groups, being a mentor for youth sports clubs and a donor for various charities; and making positive changes for local communities, in addition to being a mother of 2 young children under 5.  Lucy would like to contribute her skills and expertise to the China Center and BRI to enhance the international linkage between UK and China.