What’s Next for Taiwan: Luncheon Dialogue With Diplomat Vincent Liu

Join Global Atlanta’s editorial team at the offices of Miller & Martin for a dialogue over lunch with Vincent Jing-Yen Liu, a career Taiwanese diplomat and director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta, which represents the island’s interests in the Southeast U.S.

Topics of discussion are to include:

• Taipei Economic and Cultural Office’s objectives in the region
• State of cross-strait relations under the DPP government of Tsai Ing-wen
• Taiwan’s shifting diplomatic relations and new U.S. ties under the Trump administration
• Ongoing Taiwanese investment in Georgia—energy, electronics, manufacturing, fintech
• 40 Years of Taipei-Atlanta sister-city relations

The format:

• Catered light lunch of sandwiches, salads and soft drinks, water or coffee
• One-on-one conversation with the Global Atlanta editorial team, followed by an audience Q&A
• Discussion covered by Global Atlanta and published in a later article

About our speaker:

Mr. Vincent J.Y. Liu is the Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Atlanta. He started his assignment at the TECO Atlanta office in midtown on December 19, 2016, arriving in Atlanta from Taipei with his family to assume the posting.

DG Liu oversees the TECO Atlanta jurisdiction that covers the Southeastern states of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. In addition to consular services, TECO Atlanta is also dedicated to promoting cooperation and mutual understanding between Taiwan and the Southeastern United States in economic, cultural, and educational areas.

The Director General is a career diplomat of Taiwan. Prior to Atlanta, he was posted on official assignments to Moscow, Washington DC, New York, and Singapore.

He earned two advanced degrees in Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University in 2005. He also has a Master of International Relations and a BA in Diplomacy from National Chengchi University in Taiwan.

Born in a Catholic family, DG Liu is a devoted parishioner of the Holy Spirit Catholic Church of Atlanta. In April 2018, he was bestowed the title, Member of the Martin Luther King Jr. International College of Ministers and Laity. He is married to Gloria Chiao and has two children.