Sun Lih-chyun

Sun Lih-chyun is a Taiwanese economist who served as the spokesperson of the Executive Yuan from 2014 to 2016 and vice chairperson of the Fair Trade Commission from 2013 to 2014.

Education

Sun graduated from Soochow University with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1984. He then completed graduate studies in the United States, where he earned a Master of Arts in economics in 1988 and his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1993, both from Michigan State University. His doctoral dissertation, completed under economist John Hoehn, was titled, "Correcting for Self-Selection Bias in Contingent Valuation".

Early career

Sun was an adjunct associate professor in the department of economics of National Chung Hsing University in 1993–1994. He then became the associate professor of the department of agriculture economics of National Taiwan University.