Richard R. Vuylsteke is the current President of

East–West Center The East–West Center (EWC), or the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West, is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peop ...

. From 2008 to 2016, he was the president of the

American Chamber of Commerce The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is a business association advocacy group and is the largest lobbying group in the United States. The group was founded in April 1912 out of local chambers of commerce at the urging of President Willi ...

in Hong Kong. He was formerly the Executive Director of the

American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei The American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan (AmCham Taiwan; ) is an international business association based in Taipei City, Taiwan, with about 1,100 members representing over 580 companies across various sectors. AmCham Taiwan was founded in 19 ...

and served on the Board of Directors of

Taipei American School Taipei American School (TAS; ; abbreviation TAS) is a non-profit private school, private international school with an American-based curriculum located in Tianmu, Shilin District, Tianmu, Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan. TAS serves students from ...

, a school for which he authored the history. The book, ''Ties that Bind'', was published in 1999. A paperback edition became available in 2006. In February 2008, Vuylsteke was appointed president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. He took office as

's 11th chief executive on July 1, 2017. He has a wife, Josephine Wu Vuylsteke, and three sons: William, Jonathan, and Michael Vuylsteke. He is a graduate of

Illinois College Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (USA). It was the second college founded in Illinois but the first to grant a degree (in ...

and earned his M.A. and PhD from

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offic ...

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American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei official site
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