Key People
Wai Sin Wan
Founding Partner and Cross-Border Commercial Advisor
Wai Sin Wan is the Founding Partner of Greater Bay Partners, where he helps international clients navigate commercial opportunities between Australia, China, and the wider Indo-Pacific region.
With experience across management consulting, critical minerals, engineering, electrification, import and export, strategic planning, start-ups, and international partnerships, Wai Sin brings a practical understanding of how business is conducted across markets. His role is to help clients bridge commercial, cultural, and institutional differences by facilitating trusted relationships, market access, and on-the-ground engagement.
Wai Sin has worked with organisations including China Rare Earth Group Co. Ltd, Guangdong Rising Holdings, Lynas Rare Earths, Siemens Hong Kong, KPMG APAC, and AIESEC APAC. His background gives him insight into both corporate and institutional environments, particularly where cross-border relationships, supply chains, investment, and strategic partnerships intersect.
He was awarded the Australian Government’s prestigious New Colombo Plan Scholarship in 2021 through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, a program designed to deepen Australia’s engagement with the Indo-Pacific. In 2022, he was selected as a Future Nobel Laureate Scholar by Education First and contributed published student research on sustainability alongside ten international student peers at the Nobel Prize Museum in 2023.
Wai Sin holds a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours from Murdoch University, Western Australia, with studies in Renewable Energy Engineering and Industrial Automation Engineering.
Outside his professional work, Wai Sin supports youth public speaking initiatives and is an advocate for cross-cultural communication. He is also a keen golfer and Chinese calligraphy practitioner.
Languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia, and Korean.
