Yang Jen-ni

Yang Jen-ni (Chinese: 楊珍妮; pinyin: Yáng Zhēnnī) is a Taiwanese politician who is a Director-General.

Yang Jen-ni
楊珍妮
Official portrait, 2020
Director-General of Bureau of Foreign Trade
In office 20 August 2014 – August 2020
Deputy	Cynthia Kiang, David Hsu
Preceded by	Chang Chun-fu (張俊福)
Succeeded by	Cynthia Kiang
Personal details
Born	November 1954 (age 70)
Nationality	Republic of China
Education	National Taiwan University (BA)

Early life and education

Yang was born in November 1954. She received her bachelor's degree in foreign literature from National Taiwan University in 1978.

Career

Yang currently serves as both the Director-General of Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT), Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Deputy Chief Negotiator; she is also the first female General-Director in the BOFT since 1969. ^[1]

She joined the MOEA in 1983 and over the past 30 years has held a number of senior positions within MOEA and served at Taiwan's Permanent Mission to the WTO in Geneva.^[2][3][4]