Innovate Taiwan: Shaping the Future of a Postindustrial Society

Ted Chang is a highly accomplished Chief Technology Officer, Vice President and General Manager of Quanta Computer, which is the world’s largest computer ODM and laptop computer maker. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading global corporations and has been instrumental in driving corporate technology strategy and global research partnerships. In addition, Dr. Chang is responsible for overseeing the Quanta Research Institute (QRI) for advanced research and BU12, a business unit dedicated to the integration of AI, IoT, and cloud computing as a platform solution for smart transformation in the fields of healthcare, medicine, and agriculture. Dr. Chang has been appointed as representative of Taiwan for APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) since 2019.
 

Tiffany Chang, Miss Asia USA 2024 and the first Taiwanese recipient of the title, is a Stanford University sophomore studying Engineering Management & Human-Centered Design. She is a research assistant at APARC under Dr. Karen Eggleston and worked as an Intern at a Taiwanese AI company, Intumit Inc last summer. Tiffany plays a significant role in the Taiwanese and Asian American communities, serving as a spokesperson, emcee, influencer, and model. She has moderated high-profile events featuring notable figures such as the President of Taiwan and representatives from Chanel, and serves as a brand ambassador for esteemed Asian products. Recognized as Taiwan's "guiding light," reflecting her influential leadership within the community, Tiffany is a frequent guest on Taiwanese talk shows. Tiffany's philanthropic endeavors include founding Madhatter Knits, a global nonprofit dedicated to providing knit hats for premature babies in NICUs, showcasing her unwavering commitment to advocacy, inspiration, and empowerment, particularly for marginalized voices.
 

Steve Chen is an Internet entrepreneur who co-founded YouTube.  Born in Taiwan, Steve moved to the US when he was 8 years old.  Steve grew up in Chicago and moved to Silicon Valley in 1999 to join PayPal.  At PayPal, Steve met Chad Hurley, the co-founder of YouTube.  In 2005, Steve left PayPal to create YouTube.  YouTube quickly became one of the web's fastest-growing sites and was sold to Google for $1.65 billion. Steve was the first recipient of the Gold Card, a program launched in 2018 by Taiwan to attract foreign talent to move to the country.  In 2019, after 20 years spent in Silicon Valley, Steve moved his family to Taiwan using the Gold Card. In Taiwan, Steve has collaborated with the government to foster a better ecosystem for local entrepreneurs to create startups.
 

Carissa Cheng is a Taiwanese American junior studying International Relations with a focus in Asia. Her interest in Asian American activism began when she started making student films in high school and questioned why Asian Americans were so underrepresented both behind and in front of the camera. Last year, she served as one of the Co-Chairs of Stanford’s Taiwanese Cultural Society (TCS), which hosts Stanford’s largest pan-Asian event each year: TCS Night Market. This summer, she is thrilled to be studying abroad at National Taiwan University, where she will also intern at AI firm Intumit as part of the Stanford Global Studies program. Through her academic and professional work, she hopes to learn how countries in Asia can unite to fight global challenges such as climate change and political polarization, as well as explore the intersections and differences between Asian and Asian American identities and cultures. 
 

Yi-Ting Chung is a History Ph.D. student in the fields of East Asia and transpacific history. Born and raised in Taiwan, her concern lies in the marginalized communities who were excluded, sacrificed, and forgotten in the making of the Japanese empire. Her current research direction examines how the colonial subjects of the Japanese empire—Okinawans, Koreans, and Taiwanese—traversed the Pacific while treading the complex boundaries of nation, empire, and race between Japan and the US in the first half of the twentieth century. Yi-Ting is also deeply passionate about teaching and dedicated to bettering her pedagogy. At Stanford, she designed and taught the class “Between Empires: Modern History of Taiwan.”
 

Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also a professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford. He leads the Hoover Institution’s programs on China’s Global Sharp Power and on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region.  At FSI, he leads the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy, based at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, which he directed for more than six years. He also co-leads with (Eileen Donahoe) the Global Digital Policy Incubator, based at FSI’s Cyber Policy Center. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and serves as a senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. His research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world and on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy.
 

Karen Eggleston is Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at FSI. She is also a Fellow with the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Eggleston earned her PhD in public policy from Harvard University and has MA degrees in economics and Asian studies from the University of Hawaii and a BA in Asian studies summa cum laude (valedictorian) from Dartmouth College. Eggleston studied in China for two years and was a Fulbright scholar in Korea. Her research focuses on government and market roles in the health sector and Asia health policy, especially in China, India, Japan, and Korea; healthcare productivity; and the economics of the demographic transition.
 

Jason Hsu is the Edward Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School where he focuses on technology, geopolitics, and international politics. At Harvard, he gives lectures and leads seminars on Taiwan and semiconductors. Formerly, he served as Legislator At-Large in Taiwan’s national parliament where he worked on policy and legislation on AI, cybersecurity, semiconductor, defense and foreign affairs. Jason Hsu is a Draper-Hill Summer Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law at Stanford University and a recipient of Eisenhower Presidential Fellowship in 2022.
 

CY Huang is President of FCC Partners, a leading investment bank in Asia with offices in Taipei, Shanghai, Singapore, and Ho Chi Minh City. He is also the Vice-Chairman of K.T. Li Foundation, which has strong connections with the semiconductor industry. In addition, he is Founding Chairman of Taiwan Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Council (MAPECT), and Founder of Southeast-Asia Impact Alliance (SIA). Mr. Huang is one of the most experienced investment bankers in Asia, with over 35 years of experience in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. Mr. Huang is an influential opinion leader and has been extensively interviewed by international media. 
 

Pei-Chia Lan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of Global Asia Research Center (2017-2023) at National Taiwan University. She will be a CASBS (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences) fellow at Stanford University (2023-2024). She was a Yenching-Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University, a Fulbright scholar at New York University, a visiting professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, and Tubingen University, IIAS at Leiden University, and a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. Her major publications include Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Duke 2006, won a Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association and ICAS Book Prize: Best Study in Social Science from the International Convention of Asian Scholars) and Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018).
 

Ruo-Fan Liu is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will join Stanford as a postdoctoral fellow in July 2024. Her research examines the types of uncertainties students encounter after Taiwan’s holistic admission reforms, and how parents and teachers activate cultural and social capital to help students regain class advantages. Her work has appeared in International Studies in Sociology of Education and Ethnography. Another line of her research focuses on meritocracy and credentialism in East Asia, revealing how the symbolic power of credentials travels through online platforms to reinforce people’s beliefs about who is superior. At Stanford, she will turn her dissertation, Sticky or Shaken, into a book manuscript. She will also expand her research agenda on uncertainty into organizational hiring and talent flows.
 

Richard Saller became Stanford University’s twelfth president on September 1, 2023. Dr. Saller is a classics scholar who has previously served in several academic leadership roles, including as dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford, provost of the University of Chicago, and dean of the Social Sciences Division of the University of Chicago. A dedicated teacher, Dr. Saller has also published widely on Roman social, economic, and cultural history.

 

Bobby Sheng is is the Chairman and CEO of Bora Pharmaceuticals, the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Taiwan. The company, a beacon of excellence listed on the TWSE, operates across the globe with 9 manufacturing sites in Taiwan and North America. Raised in Southern California, Sheng's educational foundation was laid at the University of California, Berkeley, from where he launched into a career that would be marked by unprecedented entrepreneurial achievements, ranging from consumer health, technology, media and private equity. Bora's business model, which encompasses CDMO and Commercial Rx business, has been widely lauded for its rapid growth through M&A and culture for excellence. The company has earned several prestigious awards under Sheng's guidance, including the 2024 Presidential Award for "The Most Innovative Company of the Year”.
 

Gi-Wook Shin is the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea in Sociology and a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He has served as director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center since 2005, and as founding director of the Korea Program since 2001. His research concentrates on social movements, nationalism, and international relations, focusing on Korea and Asia. Shin is the author/editor of numerous books and articles, including South Korea’s Democracy in Crisis: The Threats of Illiberalism, Populism, and Polarization and The North Korean Conundrum: Balancing Human Rights and Nuclear Security. Shin’s current research initiatives include Global Talent Flows and Nationalism and Racism, focusing on the Asia-Pacific region. Shin previously taught at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a BA from Yonsei University and an MA and PhD from the University of Washington.

 

Rose Tsou has more than 20 years of international leadership experience in digital media, advertising and e-commerce. She was the Head of Verizon Media International and E-Commerce in 2018-2020 after Verizon acquired Yahoo in 2017, responsible for all consumer products, advertising sales and e-commerce in markets across EMEA, LATAM and APAC. Prior to that, Rose Tsou ran Yahoo APAC as the regional head for 10 years expanding Yahoo’s operations and revenue. She also built full-fledged e-commerce businesses in Taiwan that continued to be one of the most popular shopping destinations. Prior to Yahoo, Rose was General Manager of MTV Taiwan leading MTV to become the most popular music channel in the country. Rose is known for creating a strong people culture that attracts and develops top industry talent.

 

Jing Tsu is Jonathan D. Spence Chair Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Languages and Literatures. She specializes in modern Chinese literature & culture and Sinophone studies, from the 19th century to the present. Her research spans literature, intellectual history, science and technology, diaspora and migration studies, and global affairs and international studies. At Yale, she offers graduate seminars on sympathy, world Sinophone literature, and approaches to East Asian intellectual and literary history, science and technology. From mainland China to Southeast Asia, Taiwan to Europe, her area of expertise covers the Sinophone world at large. She is a 2023 Pulitzer Finalist for her most recent book, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Riverhead, 2022).

 

Kiyoteru Tsutsui is the Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at Shorenstein APARC, the Director of the Japan Program and Deputy Director at APARC, a senior fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor of Sociology, all at Stanford University. Tsutsui received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Kyoto University and earned an additional master’s degree and Ph.D. from Stanford’s sociology department in 2002. Tsutsui’s research interests lie in political/comparative sociology, social movements, globalization, human rights, and Japanese society. His most recent publication, Human Rights and the State: The Power of Ideas and the Realities of International Politics (Iwanami Shinsho, 2022), was awarded with the 2022 Ishibashi Tanzan Award and the 44th Suntory Prize for Arts and Sciences.

 

C. Jason Wang is a Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy and director of the Center for Policy, Outcomes, and Prevention at Stanford University. He received his B.S. from MIT, M.D. from Harvard and Ph.D. in policy analysis from RAND. After completing his pediatric residency training at UCSF, he worked in Greater China with McKinsey and Company, during which time he performed multiple studies in the Asian healthcare market. In 2000, he was recruited to serve as the project manager for the Taskforce on Reforming Taiwan's National Health Insurance System. His fellowship training in health services research included the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and the National Research Service Award Fellowship at UCLA. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2011, he was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health (2006-2010) and Associate Professor (2010-2011) at Boston University and Boston Medical Center. 


 

Marco Widodo is a sophomore at Stanford University majoring in Political Science, with concentrations in International Relations and Data Science. His background lies in historical studies of comparative race and ethnicity, particularly in understanding colonial legacies and their influence on intergroup relations and nation-building. His current research interests center on comparative studies of democracy and development, especially with how security issues affect democratic governance and state stability. This summer, he will be working as a research assistant at APARC, studying nationalism and racism in Asia. Hailing from Jakarta, Indonesia, he brings a unique Southeast Asian perspective to the student panel as a moderator. His recent academic trip to Taiwan has equipped him with insights into the region from a variety of perspectives—from students to government officials to policy analysts.



 

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