Tien Chiu-chin | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
Office1: | Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Republic of China |
Minister1: | Wu Hsin-hsing |
1Blankname1: | Vice |
1Namedata1: | Roy Leu |
Term Start1: | 20 May 2016 |
Term End1: | June 2018 |
Successor1: | Kao Chien-chih |
Office2: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Constituency2: | Republic of China |
Term Start2: | 1 February 2005 |
Term End2: | 31 January 2016 |
Birth Place: | Taipei, Taiwan |
Nationality: | Republic of China |
Party: | Democratic Progressive Party |
Education: | National Taiwan University (BA) |
Tien Chiu-chin (; born 27 May 1954) is a Taiwanese politician. She served in the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2016, and later that year became the deputy minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council. Tien was nominated a member of the Control Yuan in 2018.
Tien graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.[1]
Tien won three straight elections on the Democratic Progressive Party party-list proportional representation ticket in 2004,[2] 2008,[3] and 2012.[4] She was named deputy minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council in 2016,[5] and nominated by the Tsai Ing-wen presidential administration to the Control Yuan in March 2017.[6] During her legislative confirmation hearing in January 2018,[7] she expressed conditional agreement to the abolition of the Control Yuan.[8] Tien's nomination, alongside ten others, was approved by the Legislative Yuan, as the Democratic Progressive Party held a majority.[9] Tien was renominated to the Control Yuan in June 2020.[10]