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Hsu Chia-ching

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Hsu Chia-ching
徐佳青
Official portrait, 2023
19th Minister of the Overseas Community
Affairs Council
Assumed office
31 January 2023
Prime MinisterChen Chien-jen
Cho Jung-tai
DeputyRuan Jhao-syong
Preceded byTung Chen-yuan
Political Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council
In office
20 May 2020 – 31 January 2023
MinisterTung Chen-yuan
Preceded byKao Chien-chih
Succeeded byRuan Jhao-syong
Acting Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party
In office
25 November 2018 – 13 January 2019
ChairmanLin Yu-chang
Preceded byHung Yao-fu
Succeeded byLuo Wen-jia
21st Deputy Secretary-General of the
Democratic Progressive Party
In office
25 May 2016 – 15 July 2019
Secretary GeneralHung Yao-fu
Herself (acting)
Luo Wen-jia
Preceded byHung Yao-fu
Succeeded byLin Fei-fan
Taipei City Councillor
In office
25 December 2002 – 25 December 2014
Succeeded byChien Shu-pei
ConstituencyTaipei VI (Da'an, Wenshan)
Personal details
Born (1967-10-22) 22 October 1967 (age 57)
Taipei, Taiwan
Political partyDemocratic Progressive Party
SpouseBo Tedards
RelativesHsu Kuo-yung (uncle)
EducationNational Taiwan University (BA)
Philipps-University Marburg (MA)
National Yang-Ming University (MA)

Hsu Chia-ching (Chinese: 徐佳青; Wade–Giles: Hsu2 Chia1-ching1, born 22 October 1967) is a Taiwanese politician who served as the minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council since 2023.[1]

Education

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Political career

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Hsu first joined politics because of the Peng Wan-ru murder incident. During her political career, she is the member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and served many positions within the political party; including spokesperson, Women's Affairs Department director and central committee member.

Between 2002 and 2014, she served as a councillor in the Taipei City Council. She gives up re-election in 2014 and succeeded the position to her assistant, Chien Shu-pei.

Hsu Chia-ching in 2014.

After her councilorship ends, she returned position in the Democratic Progressive Party serving as the deputy secretary-general from 2016 to 2019, during DPP's second ruling in Taiwan's government.

Between November 2018 to January 2019, she served as the acting secretary-general of the Democratic Progressive Party under the interim leadership of Lin Yu-chang after the resignation of both the DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen and DPP secretary-general Hung Yao-fu due to the failure in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.

She served as the political deputy minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council from 2020 to 2023. In 2023's cabinet reshuffle, she was promoted as the minister, and continued serving as minister in the new government under DPP ruling in 2024.

Personal life

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Hsu married to Bo Tedards who is a citizen of the United States.

Her uncle is Hsu Kuo-yung, who is currently the host for the FTV News political program "National Bravest" since 2023 and former interior minister of Taiwan serving from 2018 to 2022.

References

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  1. ^ "Minister CHIA-CHING HSU". Overseas Community Affairs Council. 2023-01-31. Retrieved 2024-05-26.