Tsai Ing-wen

Tsai Ing-wen (Chinese: 蔡英文; pinyin: Cài Yīngwén; born 31 August 1956) is a Taiwanese politician who is the president-elect of the Republic of China, the first woman elected to the office. She is also the first president-elect to be of Hakka and Aboriginal descent (1/4 Paiwan from her grandmother), first unmarried president, and the first to have never held an elected post. She will become the second female head of state in East Asia after current President of South Korea Park Geun-hye, and the first female head of state in East Asia with no relation to a former head of state. She is the incumbent chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and was the party's presidential candidate in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. Tsai previously served as party chair from 2008 to 2012.

Tsai graduated in law and was subsequently a university professor. From 1993, she was appointed to a series of governmental positions by the then-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and was one of the chief drafters of the special state-to-state relations doctrine of then President Lee Teng-hui.