Kao Chien-chih

Kao is a graduate of Shih Hsin Vocational College, which later became Shih Hsin University.^[1]

Kao was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2004 after having served on the Taipei City Council.^[2] In 2007, he was involved repeated altercations with Kuomintang legislator Chu Fong-chi.^[3][4] In May, the Kuomintang accused Kao of slander for his comments on the party's assets.^[5] Kao and Yu Jane-daw filed a separate lawsuit against former Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou for allowing a private organization to use public land for profit.^[6] Kao was an early supporter of Frank Hsieh's 2008 presidential campaign.^[7] Hsieh was eventually named the Democratic Progressive Party's nominee, but lost the office to KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou. Kao's own legislative reelection campaign was opposed by a coalition of LGBT rights activists, and he lost to KMT opponent Ting Shou-chung.^[8] Later, Kao served as the Democratic Progressive Party's deputy secretary-general.^[9] He lent support to the independent presidential campaign of activist Ellen Huang [zh], but she dropped out in September 2011, before the registration deadline for the 2012 election.^[10] Kao was named a DPP legislative candidate for New Taipei's 11th district in the same election cycle, but was again defeated, this time by Lo Ming-tsai.^[11][12] Kao returned to the government in 2018, as the deputy minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council.^[13]