Alexander Yui
Alexander Yui Tah-ray is a Taiwanese diplomat currently serving as Taipei Economic and Cultural [Representative Office in the United States|Taiwan's representative] to the United States, succeeding Hsiao Bi-khim. A career diplomat, he previously served as the Taiwanese ambassador to Paraguay from 2015 to 2018, vice minister of Ministry of [Foreign Affairs (Taiwan)|foreign affairs] from 2021 to 2023, and briefly the Representative Office in Brussels|representative to the European Union and Belgium].
Early life and education
Yui was born to a family of diplomats. He attended high school in Panama. He then went to the United States and enrolled at Texas A&M University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science and foreign languages in 1986 and a master's degree in Spanish literature in 1988.In 2002, Yui was a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2010, he studied business at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and at the London School of Economics.
Diplomatic career
Yui served as the Representative of Taiwan to the European Union and Belgium in 2023. He was designated as the Taiwanese representative to the United States in November 2023 after the resignation of Hsiao Bi-khim. He had also served several diplomat offices including the vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, List of ambassadors of the [Republic of China to Paraguay|Taiwanese ambassador] to Paraguay, director of the Taiwanese Representative Office in the Latin America and the Caribbean.In December 2023, Yui succeeded Hsiao Bi-khim as the Taiwanese representative to the United States.