Chairman Kao-wen Mao

Chairman Kao-wen Mao graduated from National Taiwan University in 1960 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and earned his doctorate at Carengie-Mellon University in 1970. His extensive experience in the field of higher education includes serving as Dean of the College of Engineering at National Tsing Hua University, President of the National Taiwan Institute of Technology, and President of National Tsing Hua University. Chairman Mao also earned a reputation as an able administrator during his tenure as Minister of Education and Vice-President of the Examination Yuan. A skilled diplomat, he has also served his country as Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica.

President Yun-han Chu

Professor Yun-han Chu became President of the Foundation in June 2001, after having served as vice-president of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation since April 1999. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1987, and in his distinguished research and teaching career since then has focused on the political economy of East Asian newly-industrialized countries (NIC's), democratization, and comparative mass political behavior. Before taking his post at the Foundation, Prof. Chu served for eleven years as Director of Programs at the Institute for National Policy Research in Taipei, and from 1994 until 1997 was Coordinator of the Political Science section of the National Science Council. He currently holds a joint appointment as Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University.

Professor Chu is a three-time recipient of the National Science Council's Outstanding Research Award, the highest honor the Council bestows on individual professors. Publications to Prof. Chu's credit include more than one hundred journal articles and edited volume chapters, as well as twelve books and edited volumes, most recently Crafting Democracy in Taiwan (Taipei: Institute for National Policy Research, 1992) and the edited volumes Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Trends and Challenges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), China Under Jiang Zemin (Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2000), and How East Asians View Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2008). Prof. Chu is also a current editorial board member for several major research journals, including Journal of Democracy, International Studies Quarterly, Pacific Affairs, Journal of East Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and China Perspective. He was the President of the Chinese Association of Political Science (2003-2005) and a member of the Council of American Political Science Association (2009-2011).

Vice-President Gang Shyy

Dr. Gang Shyy, Professor of Finance Managemenet at National Central University, obtained his doctorate in Economics from City University of New York in 1986. Before joining the faculty at National Central University, he held positions at IBM and City University of New York. He has also served as Vice Chairman of Fubon Securities Co. Ltd since January 2011.

Vice-President Ayling Wang

Ayling Wang graduated from the Chinese Literature Department of National Taiwan University in 1979, and obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures of Yale University. She became an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica (Taipei) in 1993. Since then, she has also served as visiting professor at Charles University of Prague, City University of Hong Kong, and Wuhan University. From 2005-2006, she was acting director of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. At present she is a research fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy.

Professor Wang has been awarded the prestigious Outstanding Research Award, the highest honor the National Science Council bestows on individual professors. She has also earned the Outstanding Young Scholar Research Award and the Hu Shih Memorial Lecture Series Award from Academia Sinica. Her main interests are in traditional Chinese drama, literary theory, and Ming-Qing literature. She has published two books on Ming-Qing drama, and many articles in Chinese, English and Japanese on her areas of interest.

Program Director Paul R. Katz

Paul R. Katz, Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, obtained his doctorate from the Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University. A specialist in the history of Chinese religion and society, his leading publications include: Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang, The Cult of the Royal Lords in Taiwan(in Chinese), Images of the Immortal. The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy, and When Valleys Turned Blood Red: The Ta-pa-ni Incident in Colonial Taiwan.

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