Clement Chang | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Order: | Minister of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China |
Term Start: | 1 June 1989 |
Term End: | 24 April 1991 |
Successor: | Ma Cheng-fang (acting) Eugene Chien |
Order1: | Speaker of the Taipei City Council |
Term Start1: | 25 December 1981 |
Term End1: | 1 June 1989 |
Successor1: | Chen Chien-chih |
Order2: | Deputy Speaker of the Taipei City Council |
Term Start2: | 25 December 1969 |
Term End2: | 25 December 1981 |
Predecessor2: | Chen Shao-hui |
Successor2: | Chen Chien-chih |
Order3: | President of Tamkang University |
Term Start3: | 1 August 1964 |
Term End3: | 31 July 1986 |
Party: | Kuomintang |
Birth Date: | 15 March 1929 |
Birth Place: | Taihoku Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (today Yilan County, Taiwan) |
Death Place: | Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan |
Nationality: | Empire of Japan (until 1945), Republic of China (from 1945) |
Alma Mater: | St. John's University, Shanghai University of Illinois |
Occupation: | Politician, educator |
Clement Chang (; 15 March 1929 – 26 May 2018) was a Taiwanese academic and politician.
He was president of Tamkang University from 1964 to 1986, stepping down to serve three years as the chairman of the institution's board of trustees. Chang won his first election to the Taipei City Council in 1969, and served as deputy speaker for three terms until 1981, when he was named speaker. In 1989, Chang was appointed to the Executive Yuan as Minister of Transportation and Communications, and was succeeded by Eugene Chien in 1991.[1] Chang was a founding editor of the Journal of Futures Studies from November 1996[2] [3] to his death at National Taiwan University Hospital on 26 May 2018, aged 89.[4]