【Prof. Hong-Chen Chen has joined NCKU as the new Executive Vice President, bringing the Office of International Affairs to the next level 】

Prof. Hong-Chen Chen has joined NCKU as the new Executive Vice President. Prior to the present role, Prof. Chen was the director of the Department of Life Sciences of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST, now known as the National Science and Technology Council), Taiwan. He was also a distinguished professor and the dean of the College of Life Sciences at National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.

Led by Prof. Hong-Chen Chen, the Office of International Affairs (OIA) of NCKU currently has four sub-divisions, which are headed by Associate Vice President Prof. Kevin Chao-Hung Lin (Division of Overseas Recruitment and Admission, ORA; from Department of Geomatics), Associate Vice President Prof. Sherry Shu-Jung Hu (Division of Study Abroad, SA; from Department of Psychology), Prof. Chun Hei Antonio Cheung (Division of Overseas Students and Scholars Services, OSSS; from Department of Pharmacology), and Associate Prof. Chia-Hsiang Lin (Division of International Relations, IR; from Department of Electrical Engineering).

With the new management team and the highly energetic and experienced staff, OIA is ready to play a vital platform in creating a solid foundation for an international campus. Through promoting and facilitating international collaborations and exchange programs with top-class research-led academic institutions around the world, connecting international students and visiting scholars with NCKU, supporting student outgoing exchanges and faculty overseas research, and developing cross-national collaborations with domestic and foreign governmental sectors and non-governmental organizations, OIA cultivates international talents for tomorrow, engages with global and regional issues, and fulfills campus globalization beyond geographical limitation.