Taiwan Public Policy Program

The Taiwan Public Policy Program, a part of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, supports government officials from Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in attending HKS executive education programs on international issues and convenes seminars on topics ranging from economic security to competitiveness, trade, and clean energy cooperation.

The work of the Program today is founded in the HKS-Taiwan Leadership Program, which was established through an agreement between Former Dean Joseph S. Nye, Jr. of Harvard Kennedy School and Taiwanese Foreign Minister Hung-mao Tien in July 2001. Over the course of five years, HKS-Taiwan Leadership Program offered a unique opportunity for collaboration between Harvard Kennedy School and Taiwan’s current and emerging leaders. The work supported dozens of Taiwanese government leaders and top scholars to participate in various residential executive education programs at HKS. Institutional exchanges between Harvard faculty and Taiwan’s political and academic leadership and annual workshops and conferences produced two books on Taiwan’s trade relations and domestic politics: Economic Reform and Cross-Strait Relations (2007) and Presidential Politics in Taiwan: The Administration of Chen Shui-bian (2008).