Hsu Chia-ching explained

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]

Education

Political career

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.

Personal life

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Minister CHIA-CHING HSU . 2024-05-26. Overseas Community Affairs Council. 2023-01-31.