YCW’s London chapter was launched in 2013 and has since hosted most of its events in Parliament. Its inaugural speaker was Dr. Kerry Brown, Executive Director of the China Studies Centre, Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Sydney and also a YCW Board Advisor. Situated in one of Europe's leading capitals, YCW London has attracted a wide variety of active members from different fields interested in China. Subsequent speakers also have included:

- Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford
- Steve Tsang, Director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham
- Leta Hong Fincher, author of "Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China"
- Louisa Lim, author of "‘The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited’.

[Photo credit: Pedro Szekely via Flickr Creative Commons license]

London – ‘Why So Much Interest in China-Africa Links?’ with Carlos Oya, Professor at SOAS University of London

Dr Carlos Oya has degrees in Economics from Universidad Complutense of Madrid and SOAS (MSc Econ) where he also completed his PhD in Development Economics. He worked for several years in government in Mozambique, where he conducted extensive field research on rural labour

London – ‘Reporting in China: Politics, Investigation and Truth’ with Malcolm Moore of the Financial Times and Vincent Ni of the BBC

Uncovering the truth in China is a difficult job. Reporters, foreign and domestic, have a difficult time in uncovering what is going on and then writing about it. Vincent Ni and Malcolm Moore have both covered China from various angles, both inside and

London – ‘China’s Youth: Out for Love, Sex or Money?’ With Jemimah Steinfeld, Author and Literature Festival Manager, Asia House

Jemimah Steinfeld is the Literature Festival Manager at the Asia House and author of ‘Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China’. She started her career in Shanghai, where her interest in Asian culture began. Since then,

London – Dinner Discussion with Jianguan Shen, Managing Director and Chief Economist of Mizuho Securities Asia Limited

Ph.D. Jianguang Shen is Managing Director and Chief Economist of Mizuho Securities Asia Limited. His research area includes China and Asia Macro-economics and financial markets. He is also Adjunct Professor at the School of Economics at Fudan University, and Research Associate

London – ‘Inside the Great Firewall: Internet Literature in China’ with Michel Hockx, Director of the SOAS China Institute

Michel Hockx is professor of Chinese at the London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and founding director of the SOAS China Institute. He was educated at Leiden University in the Netherlands and at Liaoning and Peking Universities