Chu, Chin-Peng / Park, Sang-Chul

Chin-Peng Chu received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany in 1995. Since his return to Taiwan, he taught first as Assistant Professor at the first newly established comprehensive university in eastern parts of Taiwan in 1994, National Dong Hwa University, where he implemented many research projects on the topics related to the EU and its foreign relations. He also published numerous articles and books on EU in Chinese, English, and German. As Deputy Magistrate of the Hualien County Government from 2003 to 2008 and as Minister for Research and Development in the Executive Yuan/Cabinet in Taiwan from 2009 to 2012, he coordinated and promoted academic exchange programs between Dong Hwa University and the Universities in the EU. He was awarded Jean Monnet Chair in 2015 and was appointed Vice President of National Dong Hwa University in 2016.

Sang-Chul Park is currently Professor at Graduate School of Knowledge-based Technology and Energy, Tech University of Korea. He was Adjunct Professor at Center for Science-based Entrepreneurship, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, South Korea. He was also Private Dozent at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, and Visiting Full Professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He served as Associate Professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden, from 2001 to 2003, and as Associate Professor at Okayama University, Japan, from 2003 to 2006. His research interests concern industrial policy and regional development and studies on innovation systems and on science parks and innovative clusters in particular. Currently his research areas are expanded toward energy policy, sustainable development strategy, high technology ventures, international business and trade as well as global governance.