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Dr. Tien received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Senior Advisor to the Republic Of China (ROC) President. In addition, he is also the Chief Advisor to Taiwan’s National Federation of Industries. He actively organizes and leads various groups of specialists in engaging bilateral and multilateral security dialogues with counterparts in several important countries in the Indo-Pacific and European regions.

He has previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan), Chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, Representative (ambassador) to the United Kingdom, and national policy advisor to former President Lee Teng-hui. He has also served on advisory capacity to Harvard University’s Asia Center, the Brookings Institution, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, among others.

Dr. Tien has taught in Universities in both the U.S. and Taiwan as Professor of Political Science.  His numerous publications in English (author, editor, and co-editor) include Government and Politics in Kuomintang China 1927-1937 (Stanford University Press); The Great Transition: Social and Political Change in the Republic of China (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press); and Democratization in Taiwan, Implications for China (St. Anthony’s Series, Oxford University), Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, Themes and Perspectives (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press), China Under Jiang Zemin (Rienner), and The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific (M.E. Sharpe).

He has been invited to speak at some of the leading universities and policy research institutions in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. They include Australian National University, University of Hong Kong, Universities of Singapore, Harvard, UC-Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Stanford, Oxford, LSE, Cambridge, Council on Foreign Relations (New York), and The Brookings Institution.

Dr. Tien is honored with Distinguished Alumni Global Achievement Award by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.