Background
Sean Lien is the eldest son of Lien Fang Yu and Lien Chan, who served as the Chairman of the Kuomintang party and was the Vice President of Taiwan.
连胜文, 連勝文
Sean Lien is the eldest son of Lien Fang Yu and Lien Chan, who served as the Chairman of the Kuomintang party and was the Vice President of Taiwan.
Lien studied law at Fu Jen Catholic University and at Columbia University School of Law. He was also an Eisenhower Fellow.
He is the grandson of Lien Chen-tung, and the great grandson of Lian Heng. According to some sources, he was born in the United States of America. Others indicate that he was born in Taiwan.
Early Lien served in a senior management position at General Electric"s Asia Pacific Capital Fund II and as a vice president with an Investment Banking Group in Taipei.
In 2008, Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung-pin appointed Lien as chairman of Taipei Smart Card Corporation. Lien resigned as Chairman of EasyCard Corporation at the end of 2009, citing health reasons.
Assessments of his performance during this brief tenure differ. During the municipal election on 26 November 2010, Sean Lien was shot while stumping for Chen Hung-yuan, a New Taipei City Council candidate in the Yonghe District of New Taipei City.
Lien"s wound was minor and he recovered quickly.
Lien disagrees with Taiwan judiciary"s conclusion that he was shot by mistake. On November 29, Lien lost the race to independent candidate Ko Wen-je.
He is co-founder of Evenstar Capital and he previously served as chairman of the Taipei Smart Card Corporation, the company which operates EasyCard. He is co-founder and senior advisor to the Hong Kong investment company Evenstar Capital. On February 24, 2014, Lien announced his campaign for Taipei City mayor election. On April 19, 2014, he won the Chinese Nationalist Party mayoral primary.
