{{Short description|Taiwanese politician}} {{family name hatnote|Lee|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Lee I-yang | native_name = {{nobold|李逸洋}} | image = 李逸洋大使.jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2024 | office1 = 13th Representative of Taiwan to Japan | status1 = | term_start1 = 9 September 2024 | term_end1 = | president1 = Lai Ching-te | predecessor1 = Frank Hsieh | successor1 = | office2 = Vice President of the Examination Yuan | appointer2 = Tsai Ing-wen | president2 = Wu Jin-lin | term_start2 = 1 March 2017 | term_end2 = 1 September 2020 | predecessor2 = Kao Yuang-kuang | successor2 = Chou Hung-hsien {{collapsed infobox section begin | cont = yes | Additional positions | titlestyle = border:1px dashed lightgrey; }} {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | office3 = 6th Minister of the Civil Service Protection and Training Commission | term_start3 = 20 May 2016 | term_end3 = 1 March 2017 | appointer3 = Tsai Ing-wen | 1blankname3 = President | 1namedata3 = Wu Jin-lin | predecessor3 = Tsai Bih-hwang | successor3 = Kuo Fang-yu | office4 = 26th Minister of the Interior | prime_minister4 = Su Tseng-chang<br>Chang Chun-hsiung | deputy4 = Lin Mei-chu | term_start4 = 25 January 2006 | term_end4 = 20 May 2008 | predecessor4 = Su Chia-chyuan | successor4 = Liao Liou-yi | office5 = 10th Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party | deputy5 = | term_start5 = 1 February 2005 | term_end5 = 25 January 2006 | 1blankname5 = Chairman | 1namedata5 = Chen Shui-bian | predecessor5 = Chang Chun-hsiung | successor5 = Lin Chia-lung | office6 = 8th Minister of Personnel Administration | term_start6 = 1 February 2002 | term_end6 = 1 February 2005 | prime_minister6 = Yu Shyi-kun | predecessor6 = Chu Wu-hsien | successor6 = Chang Chun-yen | office7 = Deputy Minister of the Interior | term_start7 = 20 May 2000 | term_end7 = 1 February 2002 | minister7 = Chang Po-ya {{collapsed infobox section end}} }} | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1955|06|28}} | birth_place = Keelung City, Taiwan | death_date = | death_place = | constituency = | party = DPP | spouse = | signature = | footnotes = | website = | education = National Taiwan University (BA, MA) | order2 = 15th }}
'''Lee I-yang''' ({{lang-zh|t=李逸洋|p=Lǐ Yìyáng}}; born 28 June 1955) is a Taiwanese politician and former journalist. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he is Taiwan's Representative to Japan (equivalent of an ambassador). He previously served as the Vice President of the Examination Yuan from 2017 to 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinanews.com/tw/mswx/news/2008/07-15/1313206.shtml|script-title=zh:因特別費案遭起訴 前內政部長李逸洋喊冤|date=July 15, 2008|work=China News Service|language=Chinese|accessdate=31 December 2011}}</ref>
== Education == Lee graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1978 and a master's degree in political science in 1980. His master's degree dissertation was titled, "Global oil companies and international politics" (Chinese: 石油多國公司與國際政治).<ref>{{Cite web |title=石油多國公司與國際政治__臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 |url=https://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22069NTU04227003%22.&searchmode=basic |access-date=2025-08-01 |website=ndltd.ncl.edu.tw |type=Master's degree thesis}}</ref>
== Journalist career ==
Lee was a reporter at the ''China Times'' from 1982 to 1983.
== Political career ==
Lee first served as assistant to the legislator Wu Shu-chen, and then he served as the Director of Publicity of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) from 1987 to 1988. He was then elected to the Taipei City Council since 1989 until his resignation to serve as the Director of Civil Affairs in the Taipei City Government under Mayor Chen Shui-bian's administration.
Later, Chen was elected president of Taiwan, ushering in the first time the DPP came into power. Lee first served as the Deputy Minister of the Interior and Minister of the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration for the first five years of Chen administration.
Lee served as the Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party from 2005 to 2006 and returned to the central government in 2006 serving as the Minister of the Interior until the end of Chen administration in 2008.
[[File:李逸洋副院長.jpg|thumb|left|Official portrait, as Vice President of the Examination Yuan, 2017.]]
In 2016, the DPP came into power the second time, Lee was appointed by President Tsai Ing-wen to the Examination Yuan serving as the Minister of the Civil Service Protection and Training Commission and Vice President of the Examination Yuan.
In 2024, the DPP remained in power, Lee was presumptive to be appointed by President Lai Ching-te as the Representative of Taiwan to Japan, succeeding Frank Hsieh.
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