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April 20, 2004 :: No. 220

Taiwan Insurance Commissioner to Meet with Faculty, Students

What: Mark Wei, Taiwan’s commissioner of insurance, visits Cal State Fullerton April 21, when he will confer with business faculty members and deliver a classroom lecture. He also will meet with officials from several Southern California insurance companies.
   
Who: Wei, commissioner of insurance in Taiwan’s Ministry of Finance since 2002, is responsible for ensuring, regulating and supervising the solvency of Taiwan’s 52 insurance companies, as well as protecting and stabilizing the government’s pension and annuity insurance programs. He is director of the Motor Vehicle Accident Compensation Fund and executive director of Chaio Tung Bank. He travels to Southern California as an Eisenhower Fellow.
   
When: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 21 (schedule available)
   
Additional:

Wei will tour the campus, hear an overview of the College of Business and Economics’ developing insurance program, and make a presentation before students on “The Insurance Regulatory System and Insurance Market in Taiwan.”

Following his lecture, Wei will meet off campus with Gabriel Tirado, president of Mercury Insurance Group and chair of the CSUF Center for Insurance Studies Board of Directors; Kahn Tran, chief financial officer, and Robert Hsu, senior vice president of Pacific Life Insurance; Changhong Zhu, executive vice president, PIMCO; Brian Baker, head of PIMCO Singapore; Lisa Chen, vice president of Aon Global; and Bernard Fung, chair and CEO of Aon Asia.

   
Media Contacts: Weili Lu of the Center for Insurance Studies at 657-278-7296 or wlu@fullerton.edu
Pamela McLaren of Public Affairs at 657-278-4852 or pmclaren@fullerton.edu