Background
He was born in San Francisco, and attended JLS Middle School and Gunn High School in Palo Alto.
葉亞威
He was born in San Francisco, and attended JLS Middle School and Gunn High School in Palo Alto.
American University; Harvard University. Harvard Kennedy School.
He was elected to office in 2007 and was elected to mayor by the city council of Palo Alto on January 3, 2012. Yeh is the second youngest mayor in Palo Alto history and the first Chinese American to hold the office. Yeh received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from American University"s School of Public Affairs and his graduate degree in Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Yeh volunteered for the Peace Corps in Burkino Faso developing local non-governmental organization"son
Before being elected Yeh was working for the City of Oakland as an auditor. Yiaway Yeh was appointed by Mayor Karl Dean of Nashville to head up the new Mayor" General’ s Office of Innovation announced on April 26, 2013.
Yeh"s parents are both first generation immigrants from Taiwan that came to the United States. for graduate school. Of Hakka descent, Yeh"s grandfather was born in Mei County, Guangdong, China in 1909 and moved to Taiwan in 1949 following the Chinese Civil War.
