Kuan Chung-ming is former National Development Council minister
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/05
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan’s most prestigious university, National Taiwan University,
NTU President-elect Kuan Chung-ming.
NTU President-elect Kuan Chung-ming. (By Central News Agency)
on Friday chose Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔), a minister from the Kuomintang administration of former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) as its new president.
Kuan is expected to be sworn in on February 1 to succeed Yang Pan-chyr (楊泮池), who decided not to seek re-election when his term came to an end last June.
The Academia Sinica member and lecturer at NTU’s department of finance defeated four other candidates in the vote by a 21-member committee Friday evening, the Apple Daily reported. A first round narrowed the field down from five to two candidates, with 11 votes necessary to win the second round. [FULL STORY]