David Lee (politician)

David Lee Ta-wei 李大維
ROC Representative to Australia
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2015
Preceded by	Katharine Chang
ROC Representative to United States
In office 25 July 2004 – 10 April 2007
Preceded by	Chen Chien-jen
Succeeded by	Joseph Wu
Personal details
Born	(1949-10-15) 15 October 1949
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang
Alma mater	National Taiwan University University of Virginia
Occupation	Diplomat

David Lee Ta-wei (Chinese: 李大維; pinyin: Lǐ Dàwéi) (born 15 October 1949) is the head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Canada.^[1][2] He was the former head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Washington, DC, and, as such, was the de facto Taiwan ambassador to the United States.

Education

• 1986 PhD in Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, USA
• 1980 M.A. in Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia
• 1973 B.A. in Political Science, National Taiwan University, ROC (Taiwan)

Career timeline

• 2007– representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada
• 2004–2007 representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States
• 2001–2004 representative, Taipei Representative Office in Belgium, also responsible for the European Union and Luxembourg
• 1998–2001 deputy minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan)
• 2000–2001 adjunct professor, National Taiwan University
• 1997–1998 director-general, Government Information Office, Executive Yuan, and Government Spokesman (Cabinet rank), ROC
• 1996 director-general, Department of North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC
• 1993–1996 associate in Research, Fairbank Centre for East Asian Research, Harvard University
• 1993–1996 director-general, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston
• 1990–1993 deputy director-general, Department of International Information Service, Government Information Office, Executive Yuan
• 1988–1993 adjunct associate professor, National Taiwan Normal University
• 1988–1989 principal assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1982–1988 staff consultant, Coordination Council for North American Affairs, Office in Washington, D.C.
• 1976–1977 managing editor, Asia and the World Forum, Taipei, Taiwan

Publications

• The Making of the Taiwan Relations Act: Twenty Years in Retropect. Oxford University Press, 2000
• Taiwan in a Transformed World. (co-edited with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.) Brassey's Inc., 1995
• The Legislative Process of the Taiwan Relations Act. Taipei, Feng Yuen Publication, 1988

References

China's Ambassadors to the U.S. Qing ministers to the U.S. 1875–1912 Chen Lanbin 1875–81 Zheng Zaoru 1881–85 Zhang Yinheng 1885–89 Cui Guoyin 1889–93 Yang Ru 1893–96 Wu Tingfang 1896–1902 Liang Cheng 1902–07 Wu Tingfang 1907–09 Zhang Yintang 1909–11 Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1911–12 ROC's envoys to the U.S. 1912–35 Zhang Yintang 1912–13 Xia Xiefu 1913–15 V. K. Wellington Koo 1915–20 Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1920–29 Wu Chaoshu 1929–31 Yan Huiqing 1931–33 Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1933–35 ROC's ambassadors to the U.S. 1935–79 Alfred Sao-ke Sze 1935–36 Wang Zhengting 1936–38 Hu Shih 1938–42 Wei Tao-ming 1942–46 Wellington Koo 1946–56 Hollington Tong 1956–58 George Yeh 1958–61 Tsiang Tingfu 1961–65 Zhou Shukai 1965–71 James Shen 1971–79 Taiwanese representatives to the U.S. 1979–present Xia Gongquan 1979–81 Cai Weiping 1981–82 Frederick Chien 1982–88 Ding Maoshi 1988–94 Lu Zhaozhong 1994–96 Jason Hu 1996–97 Chen Xifan 1997–2000 Chen Chien-jen 2000–04 David Lee 2004–07 Joseph Wu 2007–08 Jason Yuan 2008–12 King Pu-tsung 2012–14 Shen Lyu-shun 2014– Chiefs of the PRC Liaison Office in the U.S. 1973–79 Huang Zhen 1973–77 Chai Zemin 1978–79 PRC's ambassadors to the U.S. 1979–present Chai Zemin 1979–82 Zhang Wenjin 1983–85 Han Xu 1985–89 Zhu Qizhen 1989–93 Li Daoyu 1993–98 Li Zhaoxing 1998–2001 Yang Jiechi 2001–05 Zhou Wenzhong 2005–10 Zhang Yesui 2010–13 Cui Tiankai 2013–present