Hsu Chia-ching | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Office1: | 19th Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council |
Primeminister1: | Chen Chien-jen Cho Jung-tai |
Deputy1: | Ruan Jhao-syong |
Term Start1: | 31 January 2023 |
Predecessor1: | Tung Chen-yuan |
Office2: | Political Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council |
Minister2: | Tung Chen-yuan |
Term Start2: | 20 May 2020 |
Term End2: | 31 January 2023 |
Predecessor2: | Kao Chien-chih |
Successor2: | Ruan Jhao-syong |
Order3: | Acting |
Office3: | Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party |
Term Start3: | 25 November 2018 |
Term End3: | 13 January 2019 |
1Blankname3: | Chairman |
1Namedata3: | Lin Yu-chang |
Predecessor3: | Hung Yao-fu |
Successor3: | Luo Wen-jia |
Office4: | 21st Deputy Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party |
1Blankname4: | Secretary General |
1Namedata4: | Hung Yao-fu Herself (acting) Luo Wen-jia |
Term Start4: | 25 May 2016 |
Term End4: | 15 July 2019 |
Predecessor4: | Hung Yao-fu |
Successor4: | Lin Fei-fan |
Office5: | Taipei City Councillor |
Term Start5: | 25 December 2002 |
Term End5: | 25 December 2014 |
Successor5: | Chien Shu-pei |
Constituency5: | Taipei VI (Da'an, Wenshan) |
Birth Date: | 1967 10, df=y |
Birth Place: | Taipei, Taiwan |
Party: | DPP |
Spouse: | Bo Tedards |
Education: | National Taiwan University Philipps-University Marburg National Yang-Ming University |
Relatives: | Hsu Kuo-yung (uncle) |
Hsu Chia-ching (born 22 October 1967) is a Taiwanese politician who served as the minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council since 2023.[1]
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.
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.
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.