Tsai Ing-wen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tsai Ing-wen

President of the Republic of China

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1956

Place of Birth: Zhongshan District, Taipei

Profession: lawyer, politician, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Social Profiles:

tsai_ingwen

Show Famous Birthdays Today, World

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Tsai Ing-wen

  • Tsai Ing-wen (Pe?h-oe-ji: Chhòa Eng-bûn, [t?s?ua?? ???bun??]; born 31 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician and professor serving as the president of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, since 20 May 2016.
  • The first woman to be elected to the office, Tsai is the seventh president of the Republic of China under the 1947 Constitution and the second president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP); part of Taiwan's Pan-Green Coalition.
  • She is also the first president to be of both Hakka and aboriginal descent (a quarter Paiwan from her grandmother), the first unmarried president, the first to have never held an elected executive post before presidency and the first to be popularly elected without having previously served as the Mayor of Taipei (Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian, and Ma Ying-jeou all served as the Mayor of Taipei).
  • She was the Democratic Progressive Party candidate in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.
  • Tsai previously served as party chair from 2008 to 2012, and from 2014 to 2018. Tsai studied law and international trade, and later became a law professor at Soochow University School of Law and National Chengchi University after earning an LLB from National Taiwan University, an LLM from Cornell Law School and a Ph.D.
  • in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • In 1993, as an independent (without party affiliation), she was appointed to a series of governmental positions, including trade negotiator for WTO affairs, by the then-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and was one of the chief drafters of the special state-to-state relations doctrine of then President Lee Teng-hui. After DPP President Chen Shui-bian took office in 2000, Tsai served as Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council throughout Chen's first term as a non-partisan.
  • She joined the DPP in 2004 and served briefly as a DPP-nominated at-large member of the Legislative Yuan.
  • From there, she was appointed Vice Premier under Premier Su Tseng-chang until the cabinet's mass resignation in 2007.
  • She was elected and assumed DPP leadership in 2008, following her party's defeat in the 2008 presidential election.
  • She resigned as chair after losing her 2012 presidential election bid. Tsai ran for New Taipei City mayorship in the November 2010 municipal elections but was defeated by another former vice premier, Eric Chu (KMT).
  • In April 2011, Tsai became the first female presidential candidate of a major party in the history of the Republic of China after defeating her former superior, Su Tseng-chang, in the DPP's primary by a slight margin.
  • She was defeated by incumbent Kuomintang candidate Ma Ying-jeou in the 5th direct presidential election in 2012, but was elected by a landslide four years later in the sixth direct presidential election in 2016.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also