Wang Liang-yu (王良玉), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official in charge of US and Canadian affairs, has been named Taiwan's new top envoy to Australia after her appointment was yesterday approved by the Executive Yuan.
Wang has served as director-general of the ministry’s Department of North American Affairs since August 2023. Before taking up the post, she was deputy representative to the US from 2021 to 2023 and chief of Taiwan's representative office in Geneva from 2018 to 2021.
Wang is to take up the position in Canberra, which has been vacant since last month following the departure of Douglas Hsu (徐佑典).
Photo: Yang Yao-ju, Taipei Times
Hsu, who took up the post in Australia in 2023, has returned to Taipei to serve at the ministry’s Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs.
Earlier this month, the Executive Yuan approved the appointment of Roy Hsu (許柏逸), deputy director-general of the ministry’s Department of Treaty and Legal Affairs, as Taiwan's representative to Sydney, following the departure of David Wu (吳正偉).
Wu left the post in Sydney to become Taiwan's new representative to Fiji.
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