PhD in Economics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 1985.

Bachelor of Law         Department of Business, College of Law, National Taiwan University, June 1978.

1 Family Economics

2 Population Economics

3 Law and Economics

4 Public Economics

5 Economics of Authoritarian States

Assistant and Associate Professor (Aug.1985 – Jul.1989), Departments of Business Administration and Economics, National Taiwan University.

Professor (Aug.1989 – Mar.2011), Department of Economics, National Taiwan University.

Professor (Aug.2000 – Mar.2011, Aug.2014 – Jul.2016), Department of Accounting, National Taiwan University.

Associate Research Fellow (Aug.1985 – Jul.1989), Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.

Research Fellow (Aug.1989 – Mar.1999), Institute of Economics,  Academia Sinica.

Director General (Mar.1999 – May 2000), Department of Humanities  and Social Sciences, National Science Council, Taiwan.

Distinguished Research Fellow (Jun.2000 – present), Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.

Vice President, Academia Sinica (Aug. 2000–Sep. 2003).

Chairman of Board, Chung-hwa Institution for Economic Research (Jul. 2008 – Mar. 2011).

Minister w/o Portfolio (supervising science and technology), Executive Yuan, Taiwan (Mar. 2011 – Feb. 2012).

Minister, National Science Council, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (Feb. 2012 – Mar. 2014).

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu to the World Trade Organization (Oct. 2016 — Aug.2019).

Graduate Fellowship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 1981–1983.

Graduate Fellowship, Chinese Studies Center, University of Michigan, 1983–1984.

Dissertation Fellowship, Population Council, 1984–1985.

Distinguished Research Awards, National Science Council, Taiwan, four times, 1989–1996.

Research Achievement Award, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 1991.

Rockefeller Foundation Population Science Fellow, Department of Demography, University of California, Berkeley, 1991–1992.

John Olin Foundation Law and Economics Fellow, Low School, Stanford University, 1991–1992.

Outstanding Research Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, Taiwan, 1995–2000.

Olin Visiting Professor of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School, 1998.

Ministry of Education National Chair Professor, 1998–2000.

Elected Academician, Academia Sinica, 1998.

Keynote Speaker to International Conference on Increasing Return and Economic Analysis, Monash, Australia, 1998.

Keynote Speaker to First International Conference on Demographic Dynamics, Rostock, Germany, 1999.

Keynote Speaker to Asian Population Network Conference, Penang, Malaysia, 2000.

Keynote Speaker to Fifth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Taipei, 2002.

Presidential Science Prize, Taiwan, 2003.

Keynote Speaker to First Animal Conference of Asian Law and Economics Association, Seoul, Korea 2005.

The Submilch Lecture, Max Planck Institute of Demography, 2009.

Elected Member, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 2010.

Elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 2017.

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Research Fellow, Tax Reform Committee, Ministry of Finance, Aug. 1987– Jul. 1989.

Program Committee, Far East Meeting of the Econometric Society, 1994, 1997.

Research Fellow, Education Reform Committee, Executive Yuan, Jan.–Sep. 1996.

Committee Member, Taipei City University Preparatory Committee, 1996–1998.

General Secretary, Vice President and President, Taiwan Economic Association, 1997–1998, 1998–1999, 2000–2001.

Director Search Committee, Max Planck Institute of Demography, 1998.

Committee Member, IUSSP Committee on Population Aging, 1999—present.

Program Review Committee Member, Department of Economics, Singapore National University, 2000.

Higher Education Review Committee Member, Ministry of Education, 2003—2006.

Principal Investigator, White Paper for Taiwan’s Economic Growth, Academia Sinica, 2016.