Taiwan Govt once again appoints Jennifer Makhecha (Tseng, Hsiao-Li) as Associate Advisor, Overseas Community Affair Council
An Honorary Board Member of the ACN Editorial Advisory Board, a think tank floated by the Asian Community News (ACN) Network, Ms. Jennifer was also honored with “Taiwan Top 10 Overseas Outstanding Young Persons” in 2019.
MUMBAI: Jennifer Makhecha (Tseng, Hsiao-Li), Chairperson, Taiwan Chamber of Commerce Mumbai has once again been appointed as Associate Advisor of the ‘Overseas Community Affair Council’ in India by the Taiwan government. Ambassador Baushuan Ger, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre (TECC) in India awarded Ms. Makhecha with the certificate in Mumbai on Tuesday. He was also accompanied by the Taiwan minister Xie on this occasion.
“I will continue to assist Taiwan-India collaboration and the Taiwanese community in India officially for the coming two years. I am very much moved and grateful to the representative office (TECC) and the committee for their support,” Ms. Jennifer stated
Jennifer Makhecha who is also a board member and advisor with the Committee on the Asia Pacific Industrial Cooperation (APIC), a joint trade body floated by Taiwan Economics Ministry and top corporate groups to promote trade and business between Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries including India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, was certified and honoured with this responsibility for the first time in 2017 by the Taiwan government.
An Honorary Board Member of ACN Editorial Advisory Board, a think tank floated by Asian Community News (ACN) Network, Ms. Jennifer was honored with “Taiwan Top 10 Overseas Outstanding Young Persons” in 2019.
Jennifer Makhecha is the second person of Taiwanese nationality to join the ACN Board. Peters Li-ying Chen, Assistant Representative, and Director of Education, Taiwan’s Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC), Government of Taiwan, ROC, has already come on board ACN.
Living in India since 2004 in Mumbai, she is happily married to Kamal Makhecha, a well-known corporate personality known for his chain of Raymond Stores in Gujarat and Maharashtra. She is also an OCI holder.
A graduate of Tamkang University, Ms. Jennifer has been actively involved in the corporate sector promoting Indo-Taiwanese bilateral interests in Maharashtra, especially in Mumbai, the financial capital of India for the last 17 years.
Her activities include organisning annual India Taiwan Industrial collaboration seminar in Mumbai since 2019, signing of MOU with IMC chamber in 2017 and MACCIA (Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industrial, and Agriculture) in 2020 for mutual business development, organisining India-Taiwan culture event in 2018 in Mumbai, arranging campus recruitment for Taiwan companies in Mumbai/India in 2019, and played a pivotal role in connecting Taiwan University to DY Patil group DYPIM management college and also in the signing of an MOU for research collaboration and internship program in 2020.
