Shea Jia-dong | |
Native Name: | Chinese: 許嘉棟 |
Office1: | Minister of Finance of the Republic of China |
Term Start1: | 20 May 2000 |
Term End1: | 6 October 2000 |
Predecessor1: | Paul Chiu |
Successor1: | Yen Ching-chang |
Birth Place: | Tainan County, Taiwan |
Nationality: | Republic of China |
Alma Mater: | National Taiwan University Stanford University |
Shea Jia-dong (; born 9 October 1948) is a Taiwanese politician.
Shea obtained his doctoral degree from Stanford University in the United States in 1978.[1]
After finishing his doctoral degree, Shea went back to Taiwan to work for the Institute of Economics, where he was an associate research fellow from 1978 to 1982 and a research fellow from 1982 to 2000.[2] Between 1996 and 2000, Shea served as deputy governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan).[3] Shea was named finance minister in April 2000,[4] and stepped down in October.[5]