President Chen Shui-bian (
Lee has also been invited to give the opening lecture when the academy begins operating on April 5. His speech will be on "the art of national leadership."
The DPP-TSU pact suffered a blow last week after DPP lawmakers pressed Lee to explain his role in the controversial Lafayette deal with France in the early 1990s.
The arms purchase was later discovered to involve huge kickbacks to governmental officials.
Taking immediate action to patch up frayed relations, the president visited Lee last Saturday and invited him to attend the March 29 ceremony.
A brainchild of Chen, the Ketagalan Academy is expected to nurture politically adept officials for roles in the DPP administration.
The lecturers for the academy's first session, which will last two months, are predominantly government officials and DPP supporters.
Vice Minister of National Defense Lin Chong-pin (林中斌) will give a speech on the triangular military relationship between China, Taiwan and the US. Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will analyze cross-strait relations, while National Security Bureau Director Tsai Chao-ming (蔡朝明) will discuss national security and crisis management and Michael You (游盈隆), the academy's deputy superintendent, will give a lecture about Taiwan's democratic development.
Other speakers will include Continental Engineering president Nita Ing (殷琪), Academia Sinica president Lee Yuan-tseh (李遠哲), retired National Taiwan University law professor Lee Hung-hsi (李鴻禧) and Chin Heng-wei (金恆煒), the editor in chief of Contemporary Monthly magazine.
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