Paelabang Danapan Sun Ta-chuan | |
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孫大川 | |
Senior Advisor to the President | |
Assumed office 9 February 2021 | |
President | Tsai Ing-wen |
5th Vice President of the Control Yuan | |
In office 1 August 2014 – 1 August 2020 | |
Appointed by | Ma Ying-jeou |
CY President | Chang Po-ya |
Preceded by | Chen Jinn-lih |
Succeeded by | Lee Hung-chun (2022) |
Minister of Council of Indigenous Peoples | |
In office 10 September 2009 – 1 August 2013 | |
Prime Minister | Wu Den-yih Sean Chen Jiang Yi-huah |
Deputy | Hung Liang-chuan Hsu Ming-yuan Lin Chiang-yi |
Preceded by | Chang Jen-hsiang |
Succeeded by | Lin Chiang-yi |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 December 1953 | (age 70)
Education | National Taiwan University (BA) Fu Jen Catholic University (BPhil) Catholic University of Louvain (PhD) |
Paelabang Danapan (Chinese: 巴厄拉邦; born 18 December 1953), also known as Sun Ta-chuan (Chinese: 孫大川; pinyin: Sūn Dàchuān), is an aboriginal Taiwanese educator and politician. He had served as Minister of the Council of Indigenous Peoples from 2009 to 2013 and Vice President of the Control Yuan from 2014 to 2020. Sun is a member of the Puyuma tribe in Taiwan,[1][2] and is also a Roman Catholic.[3]