Taiwan’s top diplomat in charge of consular affairs has been named as the new representative to Greece, filling a post that has been vacant for more than six months.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bureau of Consular Affairs Director-General Calvin Ho (何震寰) is to take up the post after the June departure of former representative to Greece Sherman S. Kuo (郭時南), after the Cabinet yesterday approved the move.
Kuo’s resignation was approved by the Presidential Office on June 19. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time said that he had resigned for personal reasons.
Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
Ho served as the ambassador to Caribbean ally Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 2018 to 2021 and as an ambassador on home assignment in the Department of International Cooperation and Economic Affairs before heading the Bureau of Consular Affairs starting in January last year.
He helped pushed for an online passport renewal application service that would soon complete a four-month trial before being fully implemented starting next year.
Ho has previously been posted in the US, Canada, the UK and Taiwan’s WTO office in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a former deputy ministry spokesman.
The Executive Yuan also announced that Ivan Lee (李岳融), the ministry’s chief liaison officer to the Legislative Yuan, would become Taiwan’s top representative to Mexico.
Lee has served as director-general of the ministry’s Office of Parliamentarian Affairs since September 2022. He was previously ambassador to Nicaragua and held other overseas posts, including in Peru and Paraguay.
The Cabinet’s announcement did not state when Ho and Lee are expected to take up their respective positions overseas.
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