Meeting with President Ma

Ma Ying-jeou (Chinese: 馬英九; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician who served as president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. Previously, he served as justice minister from 1993 to 1996 and mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006. He served as chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2014. Ma studied at National Taiwan University, where he received a bachelor of laws in 1972. He served in the military between 1972 and 1974, afterwards pursuing two graduate degrees in juridical science at New York University and Harvard University in the United States. He returned to Taiwan in 1981.