Karen Yu

For the American professional wrestler, see Wendy Choo.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yu (余).

Yu Wan-ju MLY
余宛如
Yu in 2016
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 2016 – 31 January 2020
Constituency	Republic of China
Personal details
Born	(1980-06-11) 11 June 1980 (age 45) Taipei, Taiwan
Political party	Democratic Progressive Party (since 2015) Green Party Taiwan (until 2015)
Education	National Taiwan University (BA, MBA) SOAS University of London (MSc)

Yu Wan-ju (Chinese: 余宛如; pinyin: Yú Wǎnrú; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Û Oán-jû; born 11 June 1980), also known by her English name Karen Yu, is a Taiwanese politician. She served a single term on the Legislative Yuan as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.

Education

After graduating from Taipei First Girls' High School, Yu studied economics at National Taiwan University and graduated with a bachelor's degree. She then earned a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in anthropology from the SOAS University of London in England and later earned Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in finance from National Taiwan University.^[1]

Pre-political career

She founded the cafe OKOGreen in 2008. The establishment served only coffee produced through fair trade practices, and supported environmentalism by partnering with Green Party Taiwan and the Taiwan Environmental Information Center.^[2] Yu has also served on the council of the Taiwan Fairtrade Association.^[3]

Political career

Yu was co-chair of Green Party Taiwan from 2012 to 2015. She was listed eighth on the Democratic Progressive Party's proportional representation ballot during the 2016 legislative elections and won an at-large seat in the Legislative Yuan.^[4] After stepping down as a legislator, she was appointed director general of the Taoyuan City Government's Department of Information Technology.^[5]

References

1. "Yu Wan-ju (9)". 23 July 2013.
2. Shu, Catherine (26 May 2010). "Buzzed on fair trade". Taipei Times. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
3. Ho Yi (31 May 2013). "Playing fair". Taipei Times. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
4. Strong, Matthew (11 November 2015). "DPP presents at-large list". Taiwan News. Retrieved 5 March 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
5. Lin, Sean; Hsiao, Po-yang (14 September 2022). "Taiwan slams barring of beauty queen from Malaysia tech event stage". Central News Agency.