Liam Bates is an entrepreneur, television host and adventurer from Switzerland, born 28 June 1988.
12 Facts About Liam Bates
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Liam Bates has gone on to present TV shows for the Discovery Channel and has founded several companies in China.
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Liam Bates was born in the canton of Vaud outside Geneva, Switzerland to an American mother and a British-Zimbabwean father.
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Liam Bates later went on to study Chinese and film at the University of British Columbia in Canada.
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Each show had Liam Bates spending a week living with farmers and learning about their local cultures.
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Liam Bates became more widely known in China than in his home country.
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In early 2012 Liam Bates began a new series, A Love for Adventure and the Last Tribe.
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In 2016 Liam Bates completed filming of a new series for the Discovery Channel, "Expedition X: Silk Road Rising".
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Liam Bates started his first company in 2006 at 17 years old, Beijing-based Bridges to China.
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In 2014 Liam Bates co-founded Kaiterra, a startup that develops IoT hardware and software products to measure global air quality and pollution levels.
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In May 2013 Liam Bates was officially appointed tourism ambassador to the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
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Liam Bates was formally invited to begin the study of xiangsheng by famous Chinese comedian Ding Guangquan after his success in the Chinese Bridge contest.