Chen Chwen-jing
Chen Chwen-jing, also known by his English name Jonathan Chen, is a Taiwanese civil engineer and academic. He served as the Deputy Minister of the Interior between March 2014 to May 2016, and previously served in the Ministry of Transportation and Communications from 2013 to 2014.
Early life and education
Chen was born on January 2, 1956, in Kaohsiung. After graduating from Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Senior High School in 1974, he studied agricultural engineering at National Taiwan University and received a Bachelor of Science in 1979. He then completed two years of military service in the Republic of China Army as a second lieutenant platoon commander in the engineering corps and later earned a master's degree from Soochow University.Upon finishing his military service, Chen worked as a research assistant at the NTU Hydraulic Research Laboratory. In 1982, he went to complete graduate studies in the United States, where he earned a Master of Science in 1983 and his Ph.D. in construction management and civil engineering in 1987 from North Carolina State University. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Bridge management under a level of service concept providing optimum improvement action, time, and budget prediction," and was completed under professor David W. Johnston.