The Executive Yuan announced further reshuffling of the Cabinet today involving the minister of the National Development Council (NDC) and two deputy ministers of culture and transportation.
Executive Yuan Minister without Portfolio Duh Tyzz-jiun will take over as new minister of the NDC. He holds a doctorate in forestry from National Taiwan University and has pursued postdoctoral research in environmental resource engineering at the State University of New York.
Duh previously served as chief secretary of the Council for Economic Planning and Development (predecessor of the NDC), director-general of the Department of Commerce of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), director-general of the MOEA's Department of Industrial Technology, director-general of the MOEA's Industrial Development Bureau, and deputy minister and minister of the MOEA. As minister without portfolio of the Executive Yuan, he supervised science and technology affairs and doubled as chief of the Executive Yuan's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policy Board. With sound experience in economic planning, Duh will be instrumental in promoting innovation and entrepreneurship policies.
Director-General Tseng Dar-jen of the Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior, assumes the post of political deputy minister of transportation and communications. Holding a doctorate in civil engineering from the U.S. University of California, Berkeley, Tseng possesses practical and theoretical knowledge of transportation engineering and has taken part in many important construction projects during long years of service in the transportation ministry. He previously served as chief engineer and director-general of the Taiwan Area National Expressway Engineering Bureau as well as director-general of the Taiwan Area National Freeway Bureau.
National Taipei University of Technology Assistant Professor Chiu Yu-yun, holding a doctorate in East Asian studies from the University of Cambridge, steps in as political deputy minister of culture. Chiu previously served at National Chengchi University (NCCU) as adjunct assistant professor at the colleges of commerce and communication and as division chief of the NCCU Center for Public and Business Administration Education. She has abundant practical experience in cultural affairs, having devoted many years to promotion of Taiwan's cultural and creative industry.