Wellington Koo (Taiwan)
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Wellington Koo Koo Li-hsiung MLY |
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顧立雄 | |
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Member of the Legislative Yuan | |
Assumed office 1 February 2016 |
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Constituency | Republic of China |
Personal details | |
Born | Taipei, Taiwan |
31 October 1958
Nationality | Taiwanese |
Political party | Democratic Progressive Party |
Alma mater | National Taiwan University New York University |
Occupation | politician |
Profession | lawyer |
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Wellington Koo (Chinese: 顧立雄; pinyin: Gù Lìxióng; born 31 October 1958) is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician.
Early life
Koo was born in Taipei in 1958, to Mainlander parents originally from Shanghai. He attended National Taiwan University before earning a master's degree in public service law from New York University. Koo passed the Taiwanese bar exam in 1983, and began teaching law at Chinese Culture University in 1993, a job he held until 2003.[1]
Legal career
Koo worked for Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law, a firm founded by Fan Kuang-chun and John Chen. While with the firm, Koo mentored Su Chiao-hui and represented Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu during the 2004 presidential election.[1] Other clients include Chao Chien-ming in a 2006 embezzlement scandal, and the Hung Chung-chiu family in 2013.[2] Koo has also served as legal counsel for Lee Teng-hui and Tsai Ing-wen,[3][4] as well as the student activists who led the 2014 Sunflower protests and the 2015 protest of curriculum guidelines.[5][6] In 2014, he joined the defense team of Chiou Ho-shun,[7] a man subject to the longest criminal case in Taiwanese judicial history who had been imprisoned for the murder of Lu Cheng in 1987.[8][9] In December 2015, Koo, representing the Democratic Progressive Party as a whole, charged then-Kuomintang chairman Eric Chu with attempting to buy votes.[10]
Political career
In September 2013,[2] Koo announced his intent to run for the mayoralty of Taipei as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.[11][12] A primary held in May 2014, after the Sunflower Movement, was won by Pasuya Yao, and Koo dropped out of the race.[13] Yao later dropped out of the race, endorsing Ko Wen-je, who won the 2014 mayoral election as an independent candidate.
Koo, then the director of the Judicial Reform Foundation, was selected for the Democratic Progressive Party's proportional representation ballot in November 2015.[14] Listed forth on the ballot during the 2016 legislative election, he won a seat in the Legislative Yuan.[15][16]
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