Meet Our Staff

Yinglee Tseng
曾尹儷
​MANAGING dIRECTOR

 Dr. Yinglee Tseng is the Chief Executive Officer of GDC. She is also the advisor at the Citizens Power Social Enterprise, Taiwan. She previously served as the Program Manager at Institute of Taiwan-American Studies. Dr. Tseng has abundant experiences in strategic management for businesses, civil society organizations and non-profit or non-government organizations internationally. She specialized in managing the political and public participation projects and facilitating international relations exchange between Taiwan and the US. She has devoted in grassroots/citizen participation activities and promoted Taiwan joining the Open Government Partnership (OGP) since 2010. She expects to encourage more citizens originally came from Taiwan to focus on Taiwan's international issues through GDC's operations in the US. 

​Ms. Tseng holds the Doctor's degree in public administration with the University of Baltimore and also received dual masters’ degrees in economics and law and international trade policies from the George Mason University. Her research interests is the citizen participation, participatory governance, leadership, empowerment, and etc.  Dr. Tseng excels in community development and knowledge exchange both in the US and Taiwan. Dr. Tseng is a multi-linguist who speaks English and Japanese fluently as well as her native languages Mandarin and Taiwanese.

Jijen  HWAng JOSEPH 
黃基禎 ​
Deputy mANAGING dIRECTOR

 ​Dr. Ji-Jen Hwang is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GDC. He is also a Research Fellow in the Institute for East Asian Studies (IEAS) at the UC Berkeley. Before that, he was the Program Director & Professor of the International Master Program in Strategic Studies (IMPSS) at the National Defense University in R.O.C. Taiwan. He had been a visiting fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) located in Washington D.C. in 2014/2015. A native of Taiwan, he holds a Ph.D. in politics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the U.K., as well as a Masters in Library Science & Information Studies from the University of North Carolina in U.S.A.

Dr. Hwang has been well known as an expert in the area of cyber security strategy since he joined the academia. He also published related articles and research papers in various publications including SSCI ones. Right now, he holds a research project on China’s Internet Governance and Censorship at the UC Berkeley.

Jenny Yeh 
​葉雅吟
Communication Specialist

Ms. Yeh is the Communication Specialist of GDC. She is also a master’s degree candidate in the Public Relations and Corporate Communications program at Georgetown University. As an enthusiastic goal-oriented professional dedicated to strategic communications planning, she conducts data-driven research to examine the problems and provide strategic communications solutions. She has several years experience specializing in digital communications, digital content and image design. In addition, she has a passion for business and relationships development. She not only maintains the relationships with other organizations, but also expand potential marketing and communications development. 

​HUI-CHUN CHENG
鄭卉淳
DIGITAL MARKETING ASSISTANT

Ms. Cheng is the Digital Marketing Assistant of GDC. She finished her bachelor's degree in Finance at University of Colorado Denver in 2014. During her undergraduate study, she focused on the topics of international finance, international marketing and applied marketing management. She did her intern as a digital marketing specialist at a non-profit institution- Emily Griffith Foundation at Denver in 2015. 

She had taught Chinese Mandarin in Bechtel International Center at Stanford University in 2016. Now, she is taking her master's degree- MEd in foreign language education at University of Pittsburgh. She is enthusiastic at attending the events about international affairs and cultural issues.

Ms. Cheng can speak fluent Chinese, English and Taiwanese. During her free time, she likes to read  history, international news, and observes the international relations among Taiwan- US and China. Currently, she is working on advocating the concept and idea of GDC via digital marketing platform.