Distinguished Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Central University, Taiwan
Robert Kennedy Lewis is a St Lucian politician affiliated with the Saint Lucia Labour Party. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia following the election of 11 December 2006 as the member of parliament for Castries South.[1][2] Previous to his election Lewis was supervisor and examiner of National Examinations in Mathematics from 1992 to 2006. In January 2005 he received a Phd in mathematics from the University of Otago.
Lewis presented diplomatic credentials to Joseph Wu, foreign minister of the Republic of China on 20 April 2022, and succeeded Edwin Laurent, who had served as St Lucian ambassador to the Republic of China since May 2018. Lewis presented his diplomatic credentials to president Tsai Ing-wen on 5 May 2022.
Fu-Kuo Liu is Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations (IIR), National Chengchi University and Professor at the International Doctorate Program in the Asia Pacific Studies (IDAS), College of Social Science, National Chengchi University. He is also Director of the Taiwan Center for Security Studies (TCSS) and the editor for Strategic & Security Analyses and Strategic Vision.In 2017, he assumed the Chair of the Association of Asia Pacific Policy Research in Taiwan.
Dr. Liu was Dean of International College of Innovation, National Chengchi University; Chairman, Research Division of American and European Studies, IIR; Chairman, the Research and Planning Committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a consultative adviser of the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan.
His research and teaching focuses on Asia Pacific security, Asian regionalism, national security and the South China Sea, peace process across the Taiwan Strait, US strategy in Asia, Asian maritime security, and Taiwan foreign and security policy. He received a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Hull, the United Kingdom.
Prof. Richard (Yuan-Yi) Fang graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a lawyer, he has extensive experience practicing law as an attorney and arbitrator both locally and abroad. As a distinguished academic, he serves as Professor of Law and Convener of the Social Enterprise & Innovation Law Research Center at Chinese Culture University. His research focuses on CSR, ESG, corporate governance, social enterprise, and social innovation law.
As a dedicated educator, he has promoted Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) within Taiwan’s higher education system and founded the College of Sustainability & Innovation at Chinese Culture University.
In the public sector, Prof. Fang has served on the exam committee of the Ministry of Examination and played a key role in drafting Taiwan’s Company Act, which allows companies to be incorporated as benefit corporations. He has also been involved in reforming Taiwan's Social Innovation Policy and Legal System.
Dr. Shih-Yu Lee is currently Associate Research Fellow of Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica and also Adjunct Associate Professor at National Taiwan University and National Central University. Her research interest is closely related to climate change and its impact. Over the last few years, her research direction mainly focuses to the following directions: (1) climate forcing response, (2) climate change’s impact, and (3) statistical tool development for satellite information analysis on geosciences. With numerical climate models as the main research tool, she designed experiments, performed simulations and analyses to reveal how different factors influence the climate and to test existing climate theories with a spatial focus on the Asian monsoon region.