Yang Jen-ni

Yang Jen-ni
楊珍妮
Official portrait, 2020
Director-General of Bureau of Foreign Trade
In office
20 August 2014 – August 2020
DeputyCynthia Kiang, David Hsu
Preceded byChang Chun-fu (張俊福)
Succeeded byCynthia Kiang
Personal details
BornNovember 1954
NationalityRepublic of China
EducationNational Taiwan University (BA)

Yang Jen-ni (Chinese: 楊珍妮; pinyin: Yáng Zhēnnī) is a Taiwanese politician who is a Director-General.

Early life and education

Yang was born in November 1954. She received her bachelor's degree in foreign literature from National Taiwan University in 1978.

Career

Yang currently serves as both the Director-General of Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT), Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Deputy Chief Negotiator; she is also the first female General-Director in the BOFT since 1969. [1]

She joined the MOEA in 1983 and over the past 30 years has held a number of senior positions within MOEA and served at Taiwan's Permanent Mission to the WTO in Geneva.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ "國貿局長楊珍妮 談判桌上爭天下 - 財經要聞".
  2. ^ "「WTO 二十週年：回顧與展望」國際研討會 綜合論壇 演講專文 the Future of the WTO: From Regionalism to Multilateralism".
  3. ^ "Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs ::: Department Profile". Trade.gov.tw. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  4. ^ "Member Economies".