Wang Kwo-tsai

Wang Kwo-tsai is a Taiwanese engineer who served as the Minister of Transportation and Communications from 2021 to 2024. He had also served as the Political Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications between 2016 and 2021.

Education

Wang graduated from National Cheng Kung University with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in transportation engineering in 1981 and 1988, respectively. He then earned his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from National Chiao Tung University in 1995. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "A study on the impact of transportation network layouts on urban development patterns".

Political career

Wang took office as political deputy minister of transportation and communications on 20 May 2016, serving under Hochen Tan. He served as the acting minister between December 2018 to January 2019 as the deputy minister, after the then minister Wu Hong-mo resigned due to the poor result of the ruling party of government on the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.