Tien Chiu-chin

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tien.

Tien Chiu-chin (Chinese: 田秋堇; pinyin: Tián Qiūjǐn; born 27 May 1954) is a Taiwanese politician. She served in the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2016, and later that year became the deputy minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council. Tien was nominated a member of the Control Yuan in 2018.

Tien Chiu-chin MLY
田秋堇
Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Republic of China
In office 20 May 2016 – June 2018
Minister	Wu Hsin-hsing
Vice	Roy Leu
Succeeded by	Kao Chien-chih
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 2005 – 31 January 2016
Constituency	Republic of China
Personal details
Born	27 May 1954 (1954-05-27) (age 71) Taipei, Taiwan
Political party	Democratic Progressive Party
Education	National Taiwan University (BA)

Education

Tien graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.^[1]

Political career

Tien won three straight elections on the Democratic Progressive Party party-list proportional representation ticket in 2004,^[2] 2008,^[3] and 2012.^[4] She was named deputy minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council in 2016,^[5] and nominated by the Tsai Ing-wen presidential administration to the Control Yuan in March 2017.^[6] During her legislative confirmation hearing in January 2018,^[7] she expressed conditional agreement to the abolition of the Control Yuan.^[8] Tien's nomination, alongside ten others, was approved by the Legislative Yuan, as the Democratic Progressive Party held a majority.^[9] Tien was renominated to the Control Yuan in June 2020.^[10]