Bi-khim Hsiao is currently the Vice President-elect of Taiwan. She was elected along with President-elect Lai Ching-te on January 13, 2024, and they will be inaugurated on May 20, 2024.

Previously, Hsiao served as Taiwan’s Representative to the United States from 2020 to 2023. She has also served as a Senior Advisor to the President at Taiwan’s National Security Council.

Vice President-elect Hsiao served four terms in Taiwan’s Legislature, representing overseas citizens for her first term, and then the constituents of Taipei City and Hualien County through different terms. For many years, she was the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and previously the chair of the USA Caucus in the Legislative Yuan.

She began her political career as Director of the Democratic Progressive Party International Affairs Department. After Taiwan’s first democratic change of government in 2000, she became an Adviser at the Office of the President. She was the international spokesperson for all DPP presidential elections between 2000 and 2012.

Vice President-elect Hsiao has taken on numerous leadership roles in international organizations. She was the Chair of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), an organization representing Asian democratic political parties. Between 2005 and 2012, she was elected Vice President of the Bureau of Liberal International (LI), a London-based global political party organization.

She is also a founding Board Member of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. Born in Kobe, Japan, Representative Hsiao grew up in Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan. She has an MA in Political Science from Columbia University, New York, and a BA in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College, Ohio.