About Us
Find out more about the Chinese, East and South East Asian Liberal Democrats Afiflliated Organisation
CESEA LibDems is an official Affiliated Organisation (AO) of the Liberal Democrats. We are the party’s only official diversity AO dedicated to members and communities with ESEA heritage and links.
We support, mentor and fund ESEA candidates standing for election including Vice President Victoria Collins, the Party’s first LD MP with ESEA heritage and Cllr Ying Tong-Perrett the country’s first councilor on a Hong Kong BNO visa.
Our Patron
The Patron of CESEA is Victoria Collins MP.
Our Chair - Cllr Ying Tong Perrett
Ying is no stranger to UK graduating from university here in the early 90s. Her career spanned from IT support to journalism and market intelligence with Computerworld, IDC, to mid management in IBM and Autodesk.
Returning in 2021 on a British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) visa , she joined the Lib Dems and became the first BN(O) dual councillor in the country - Parish Councillor for Bisley and Borough Councillor for Surrey Heath.
She joined CESEA Lib Dems - formerly Chinese Lib Dems and was subsequently elected on the exec committee in 2023. In 2024, she took on the role of chair.
For the coming year 2026 - we have the Scottish elections as well as the May local elections. We are planning to support new potential councillors in their campaigning as well as current councillors seeking re-election - this on top of continuing to raise our profile within the party. If you’d like to find out more or join us - please do get in contact.