Wang Kwo-tsai (; born 1959) is a Taiwanese engineer who served as the Minister of Transportation and Communications from 2021 to 2024. He had also served as the Political Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications between 2016 and 2021.

Education

Wang obtained his bachelor's and master's degree in transportation management from

National Cheng Kung University National Cheng Kung University (NCKU; ) is a Public university, public research university located in the East District, Tainan, East District of Tainan, Taiwan. Founded in 1931 during Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese rule as an engineering ...

in 1981 and 1988 respectively. He then earned his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

transportation engineering Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation to provide for the safe, ...

from

National Chiao Tung University National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) was a public research university 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 the Chinese ...

in 1995.

Political career

Wang took office as political deputy minister of transportation and communications on 20 May 2016, serving under

Hochen Tan Hochen Tan (; born 6 December 1950) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Taiwan), Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China from 20 May 2016 until 16 July 2018. He is t ...

. He served as the acting minister between December 2018 to January 2019 as the deputy minister, after the then minister

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resigned due to the poor result of the ruling party of government on the

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References

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