Shea Jia-dong (; born 9 October 1948) is a Taiwanese politician.
Education
Shea obtained his doctoral degree from
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
in the United States in 1978.
Career
After finishing his doctoral degree, Shea went back to Taiwan to work for the
Institute of Economics, where he was an associate research fellow from 1978 to 1982 and a research fellow from 1982 to 2000. Between 1996 and 2000, Shea served as deputy governor of the
Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
The Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (CBC), known in English from 1924 to 2007 as the Central Bank of China, is the central bank of the Republic of China, once founded in Mainland China and since relocated to Taiwan. Its legal an ...
. Shea was named
finance minister
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
in April 2000, and stepped down in October.
References
Living people
Taiwanese Ministers of Finance
1948 births
Stanford University alumni
National Taiwan University alumni
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