Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/29
By: Liao Yu-yang and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Sept. 29 (CNA) Former Minister of Economic Affairs Lee Chih-kung (李世光)

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will take over as chairman of the Hsinchu County-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) next month, according to the nonprofit R&D organization.

Lee, who resigned in the wake of a major blackout that affected millions of households around Taiwan in August, will take over the position on Oct. 5, the ITRI said in a public notification.

The holder of a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in theoretical and applied mechanics, Lee worked as a researcher at IBM for many years before returning to Taiwan to teach at National Taiwan University (NTU).    [FULL  STORY]