| Kao Chien-chih | |
| Native Name: | 高建智 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
| Term Start1: | 13 February 2018 |
| Term End1: | 19 May 2020 |
| Term Start2: | 1 February 2005 |
| Term End2: | 31 January 2008 |
| Birth Date: | 17 August 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Taipei County, Taiwan |
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Kao Chien-chih (; born 17 August 1953) is a Taiwanese politician.
Kao is a graduate of Shih Hsin Vocational College, which later became Shih Hsin University.[1]
Kao was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2004 after having served on the Taipei City Council.[2] In 2007, he was involved repeated altercations with Kuomintang legislator Chu Fong-chi.[3] [4] In May, the Kuomintang accused Kao of slander for his comments on the party's assets.[5] Kao and Yu Jane-daw filed a separate lawsuit against former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou for allowing a private organization to use public land for profit.[6] Kao was an early supporter of Frank Hsieh's 2008 presidential campaign.[7] Hsieh was eventually named the Democratic Progressive Party's nominee, but lost the office to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou. Kao's own legislative reelection campaign was opposed by a coalition of LGBT rights activists, and he lost to KMT opponent Ting Shou-chung.[8] Later, Kao served as the Democratic Progressive Party's deputy secretary-general.[9] He lent support to the independent presidential campaign of activist, but she dropped out in September 2011, before the registration deadline for the 2012 election.[10] Kao was named a DPP legislative candidate for New Taipei's 11th district in the same election cycle, but was again defeated, this time by Lo Ming-tsai.[11] [12] Kao returned to the government in 2018, as the deputy minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council.[13]