Education
The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She is the president and Chief Executive Officer of Mainstream Broadcasting Corporation CHMB AM1320 and has also served as the news director at Channel M Television (now Organising Medical Networked Information British Columbia), and previously served as a communications advisor at British Columbia"s Cabinet Policy and Communications Secretariat. She was instrumental in the launch of the first-ever live Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi daily television news programs. In 2010, Wat was appointed to the Canadian Women Voters Congress Advisory Board and was appointed one of British Columbia"s top 100 most influential women by the Vancouver Sun.
She represents the electoral district of Richmond Centre as a member of the British Columbia Liberal Party and was appointed Minister of International Trade, and Minister Responsible for the Asia Pacific Strategy and Multiculturalism on June 10, 2013 by Premier Christy Clark. She is also currently a board member of the school of journalism at University of British Columbia.