Audrey Tang

And I think this is a lesson everybody needs to learn now, because if you make young people feel that they are left alone, left aside from the political class, and they don't have a real voice into the political decisions, then they can turn cynic, and they can turn into apathy, or even violence, very easily. But in Taiwan, the cabinet has reverse mentors, people younger than 35 that advise the cabinet ministers. So when I was 33, I was reverse mentoring a cabinet minister. And when I became the minister, when I was 35, I was too old. So I had to work with young advisors who were sometimes even younger than 18.