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Jason Hung (born January 18, 1995) is a Chinese researcher, columnist, social entrepreneur, public speaker. In 2016, Jason co-founded a social enterprise, known as The Gateway, to help refugees and asylum seekers in Coventry, England, realise social and occupational integration. In 2018, Jason worked as a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley and started penning a column at South China Morning Post. From 2019 onwards, he is working as a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a country director (of China) at Global Peace Chain, a global social venture.

Early life and education
Jason was born and raised in Hong Kong to parents of Hong Kong descent. His father was a businessman and his mother is a businesswoman-cum-housewife.He received his high school diploma at La Salle College after repeating grade 11 once due to health problems. Jason received a bachelor's degree from the University of Warwick. While at university, Wong established his reputation as a public speaker by winning relevant awards at Harvard University, the University of Oxford, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and among others. He additionally worked as the founding vice executive director at UK Joint University Public Speaking Competition in 2017.

At postgraduate level, Jason pursued each of his master's degrees at the London School of Economics and University College London. Jason was a Rotary Global Grant Scholar and a UCL Hong Kong Scholar.

Career
As a social scientist, Jason has been holding research appointments as a visiting scholar at UCBerkeley and Stanford. His research interests include social inequalities and human rights issues, and their applicability when studying socially, educationally, financially, racially, sexually and mentally disadvantaged populations in Hong Kong and the mainland Chinese contexts.

As a columnist, Jason has been writing articles about social inequalities and human rights issues faced by local and non-local (mainly foreign domestic workers) Hong Kong residents and Chinese diaspora worldwide.

Jason has additionally been engaging in community outreach in Hong Kong, the mainland China and the UK. In Hong Kong, Jason primarily worked as a voluntary teacher, teaching ethnic minority and financially disadvantaged children languages, mathematics and soft skills between 2014 and 2015 at Christian Action. He also shared the nuances between mental health, parenting styles and community outreach with Hong Kong's low income families in 2019 as an invited speaker for Variety the Children's Charity St. Louis. In the mainland, in 2015, he worked as a voluntary teacher and taught financially underprivileged students English through non-textbook-based pedagogical approaches at Xi'an Jiao Tong University Affiliated High School No. 2. In the UK, Jason co-founded the Gateway to empower refugees and asylum seekers in Coventry through teaching them soft skills and helping them secure volunteering and work placement opportunities between 2016 and 2018. He is currently employed as the country director (of China) at Global Peace Chain.