Nita Ing
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Chairman, Taiwan Synthetic Rubber Corporation
CEO, American Bridge Company
General Manager, Hill & Knowlton Investment Company
Director, Pacific Construction Company
Chairman, Voice of Taipei
National Policy Advisor, Office of the President of the Republic of China
Nancy Chang
Nita Ing | |
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| 殷琪 | |
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| Born | March 17, 1955 |
| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupations | Chairman, Continental Engineering Corporation Chairman, Taiwan Synthetic Rubber Corporation CEO, American Bridge Company General Manager, Hill & Knowlton Investment Company Director, Pacific Construction Company Chairman, Voice of Taipei National Policy Advisor, Office of the President of the Republic of China |
| Parent(s) | Chi-Hou Ing Nancy Chang |
Nita Ing (Chinese: 殷琪; born 17 March 1955) is a Taiwanese-American businesswoman who is the president of Continental Engineering Corporation and the former chairman of the board of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, the company which built a high-speed railway system from Taipei to Kaohsiung. A supporter of the Democratic Progressive Party, she had been an advisor to the former President Chen Shui-bian.
Her career as a construction magnate took place largely within Taiwan's Continental Engineering Corporation, of which she has served as the chairman of the board.
Nita's hometown is Wenzhou and comes from a Wenzhounese family. Her father, Wenzhounese businessman, Chi-Hou Ing, was the founder of Continental Engineering Corporation and paternal grandfather was the former deputy minister of Ministry of Finance of Republic of China in the early 20th century.[1][2][3]
Nita Ing was expelled from Taipei American School for "rowdy behavior" and sent to a Massachusetts boarding school in the 1970's when she was a teenager.[citation needed] She then majored in economics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but was expelled from the University for setting up a fire for protesting women inequality.[4]
She was briefly married to Paul Gittleson in 1979 in Los Angeles, but divorced a few years later. Her children were from a subsequent relationship.[clarification needed] She currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan with her two daughters, who both attend Taipei American School.
