Wu I-ding
Taiwanese politician
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Wu I-ding (Chinese: 吳怡玎; born 13 November 1979) is a Taiwanese statistician and politician. She was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2020 to 2024.
Wu I-ding | |
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吳怡玎 | |
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| Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
| In office 1 February 2020 – 31 January 2024 | |
| Constituency | Republic of China |
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| Born | 13 November 1979 Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Party | Kuomintang |
| Education | National Taiwan University (BA) University of Southampton (MSc) Imperial College London (PhD) |
Early life and education
Wu was born on 13 November 1979,[1] and raised in Kaohsiung.[2] She graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 2001. She then completed graduate studies in England, earning a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in operations research and finance with distinction from the University of Southampton in 2003 and her Ph.D. in statistics from Imperial College London in 2008.[1] Her doctoral dissertation was titled, "The non-ignorable missing-data problem in consumer banking".
Political career
Wu was placed on the Kuomintang party list in the 2020 legislative elections as a representative of the youth vote.[3][4] Ranked ninth on the list,[1] she was elected to the Legislative Yuan.[5]
She questioned the extension of tenure granted to the Transitional Justice Commission in April 2020.[6]
In March 2020, Wu was elected to the Kuomintang Central Standing Committee.[7]
