Peters Li-ying Chen, Asst Rep & Director Education, Taiwan’s Taipei Economic and Cultural Center joins ACN Advisory Board, an Asian Think Tank

NEW DELHI. Peters Li-ying Chen, Assistant Representative and Director of Education Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC) in India, has joined ACN Editorial Advisory Board, an Asian think tank, as an Honorary Board Member.

Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India (TECC) is the Republic of China (Taiwan) government representative office in India. It is responsible for promoting bilateral relations between ROC (Taiwan) and India in the fields of the economy, trade, investment, the media, tourism, culture, education and science, and technology.

With this, the ACN Editorial Advisory Board, which offers a common platform with representation from East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea besides India, now gets represented by Taiwan as well.

Mr. Chen was formally inducted into the Board as an Honorary Member in a hybrid meeting of the ACN Editorial Advisory Board held at Qutab Golf Club in New Delhi on December 18.

Mr. Chen currently bridges bilateral cooperation by setting up Taiwan Education Centers (TECs) at campuses in India to promote Mandarin education and scholarships. So far, TECC has inked Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with numerous reputed educational institutions in India including well-known universities and set up 23 TECs.

As many as 15 of these TECs were set up during the pandemic struck the year 2010-21 under his leadership.

Recently, the education division of TECC conducted the Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) for the first time at Don Bosco University in Assam, when Taiwan’s Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in India (TECC), Ambassador Baushuan Ger also visited the university.

Under Mr. Chen’s leadership in India, Taiwan awarded scholarships to Indian students to the tune of Rs. 14 Cr and Rs. 15.2 Cr in the year 2020 and 2021 respectively. As many as 2780 Indian students are studying in Taiwan.

Mr. Chen was earlier appointed as secretary to the Minister of Education and helped to formulate many educational policies. Before joining the Ministry of Education, he worked in Guangdong Province, China in the private sector.

Mr. Chen earned his Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and had served as assistant secretary-general at ‘London School of Economics and Political Science Alumni Association Taiwan’ till last year.

He was visiting scholar at Harvard University sponsored by the Fulbright Scholarship in 2012 and he went to study in the World Trade Institute (WTI) of the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2013

ACN Editorial Advisory Board welcomes Mr. Chen to this Think Tank, which is all set to get greatly benefitted from his rich experience of Indo-Korean bilateral relations for the betterment of the two countries.

Other Honorary board members include Mr. Tomio Isogai, Former MD, Sharp India and UAE, Mr. Nobuhiro Takahashi, Former Advisor, Japan Chamber of Commerce & Industry India (JCCII), Mr. Hidehito Jay ARAKI, Management Consultant for Japanese companies in India, Mr. Prakash Yadav, Co-founder, AJU Group of Japanese Hotels, Mr. Shiv Kothari, Founder, Chain of Tokyo Stores to represent Indo-Japanese affairs.

Mr. Euy Don Park, President, Korean Federation in India and VP, Korean Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KOCHAM), Prof. Do Young Kim, Honorary Director, Korean Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Mr. Sung-chang Hong, Managing Director, NongHyup Bank (NH Bank), Mr. Suresh Chukkapalli, Honorary Consul General of Korea, Telangana, and Mr. Arshi Krishnachar, India Head, Seoul Semiconductor & Chairman, ISLE, Karnataka to represent Indo-South Korean affairs.

The honorary board members also include Mr. Sanjeev K Ahuja, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Asian Community News (ACN) Network, Mr. Pawan Choudhary, Advisor, Chief Minister, Haryana, (Foreign Cooperation Department), Mr. J C Pegu (IRS), Former Chief Commissioner, Income Tax, New Delhi, Ms. Ritu Agarwal, Country Head, TITP, Japan, Russia, and South Asia, National Skill Development Corporation, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Mr. Rohit Kochhar, Founding Member & Managing Partner, Kochhar & Co., and Mr. Mohit Malik, Senior Taxation Expert, and Promoter, GST Academy.

About ACN Editorial Advisory Board:

Promoted by Asian Community News (ACN) Network – a real-time and online non-political news-media house dedicated to Indo-Asian affairs with a special focus on key Asian majors like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and ASEAN members, the ACN Editorial Advisory Board aims at bringing like-minded experts from various East Asian countries together on a common platform for strengthening Indo-Asian relationship and bilateral ties through the media and advocacy initiatives.

The invitation for joining the Board is sent to the prominent personalities from Asian countries who have been doing an extremely commendable job in promoting bilateral relations between India and Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and ASEAN for the past many years.

The membership to the Board rests is strictly by invitation only with sole discretion lying with the Asian Community News (ACN) Network.

The board members have the privilege of writing self-authored articles and contributing to various news stories developing from time to time as expert commentators. They could advise the ACN Editorial team on various topics & issues – current and evolving pertaining to Asian developments.

The board also offers an opportunity to the members to take up issues of common concerns through discussions, deliberations, and brainstorming sessions during physical and virtual meetings.

The Board plans to take the delegation of its members to various heads of state/union governments to discuss various Indo-Asian matters, and prepare Advisory Document and submit the same to the government.

ACN Editorial Advisory Board also offers an opportunity to participate in Webinars/Seminars organized by ACN in which the government representatives/bureaucrats/ministers/Corporate leaders, Academicians/intellectuals from various countries could be invited to participate.