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Hsu Chia-ching (Chinese: 徐佳青; Wade–Giles: Hsu² Chia¹-ching¹, born 22 October 1967) is a Taiwanese politician who served as the minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council since 2023.^[1]

Education

• B.A. in agronomy, National Taiwan University
• M.A. in sociology, Philipps-University Marburg
• M.A. in Health and Welfare Policy, National Yang-Ming University

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.

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