Cyrus Chu

C. Y. Cyrus Chu (Chinese: 朱敬一; pinyin: Zhū Jìngyī; born 29 October 1955) is a Taiwanese economist and politician. He holds a Bachelor of Law (Department of Business) from National Taiwan University (1978) and PhD in economics from the University of Michigan (1985). He joined the Department of Business Administration and Economics at National Taiwan University thereafter and was promoted to Professor in 1989. He has published 2 monographs on demography and family economics, respectively, both published by Oxford University Press, and more than 100 professional articles in journals including American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. He was Vice President of Academia Sinica (2000–2003) and Chairman of Board at Chung-Hwa Institution for Economic Research (2008-2011), and has been a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica since 2000. He was elected as an Academician of Academia Sinica (1998), a Member of The World Academy of Sciences (2010), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States (2017).^[2] He recently joined the WID team of Thomas Piketty, analysing the taxation and wealth-registration individual data of Taiwan.^[3] From 2011 to 2019, he served as Minister without Portfolio, supervising science and technology, then Minister of National Science Council (renamed the Ministry of Science and Technology) of Executive Yuan of Republic of China (Taiwan), then Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu to the World Trade Organization in Geneva.^[4]