Timothy Ting or Ting Ting-yu (; born 1954) is a Taiwanese politician and sociologist.

Personal life

Ting graduated from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

(NTU) with a bachelor's degree in sociology before going on to the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

for his doctorate. He has a son and a daughter, whom he sent to

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for their education in the 1990s.

In academia and business

Ting served as an assistant professor of sociology at

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before returning to Taiwan, where he successively took up associate professorships at

National Chengchi University National Chengchi University () is a public research university in Taipei. The university is also considered as the earliest public service training facility of the Republic of China. First established in Nanjing in 1927, the university was subs ...

and his alma mater NTU. In 1997 he left his post at NTU to work in the

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industry. He eventually began working for Gallup Taiwan, a research organisation. In a 2006 letter to the ''

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'', a spokesperson for the U.S.-based Gallup denied any association with Ting or his company.

As deputy mayor of Taipei

Ting was appointed third deputy mayor of Taipei by

Hau Lung-pin Hau Lung-pin (; born 22 August 1952) is a Taiwanese politician. As a member of the New Party, he was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1995, and resigned his seat to lead the Environmental Protection Administration in 2001. Hau stepped down ...

in August 2011. His financial declaration at the time he took office showed that he owned investment properties in a number of cities. These included four in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

and

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, making him the public official with the largest number of properties in

mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territories within Greater China. ...

. During his time in office, one issue to which he turned his focus was

urban renewal Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighte ...

; he stated that Taipei was at a disadvantage compared to other major cities in Asia such as Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai due to its age, having been mostly constructed in the 1960s and 1970s. In October 2013, he visited

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province in the China, People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the List of cities in China ...

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as part of an official delegation during Hubei province's "Taiwan Week" in an effort to encourage companies there to invest in Taiwan.

References

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