Chang Chen-yuan (), also known by his English name Michael Chang, is a Taiwanese politician. He graduated from the Department of Transportation and Logistics Management at

National Chiao Tung University National Chiao Tung University (NCTU; ) was a public research university located in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Established in 1896 as Nanyang Public School by an imperial edict of the Guangxu Emperor, it was one of China's leading universities. After th ...

with a doctorate and served as station master at

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from 1987 to 1991. Chang later successively assumed several public service posts relating to public transportation and tourism. Such positions included leading the tourism division of the

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in New York, a stint as director of the Southwest Coast National Scenic Area, and within Tainan City Government as municipal Bureau of Transportation director and the city's deputy mayor under

William Lai William Lai Ching-te (; born 6 October 1959) is a Taiwanese politician who has been the Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2020. He served as a legislator in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2010, and as Mayor of Tainan from ...

. Chang became political deputy minister of transportation and communications after Lai assumed the premiership. As a result of the derailment of a Puyuma express train in October 2018,

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Director-General Lu Chieh-shen resigned. Chang was appointed to the TRA on 25 October and stepped down at the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to succeed Lu. Chang began his tenure as TRA director-general on 9 November 2018.

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