Alexander Tah-ray Yui

Alexander Yui Tah-ray is a Taiwanese diplomat currently serving as Taiwan's representative to the United States, succeeding Hsiao Bi-khim. A career diplomat, he previously served as the Taiwanese ambassador to Paraguay from 2015 to 2018, vice minister of foreign affairs from 2021 to 2023, and briefly the representative to the European Union and Belgium.

Early life and education Yui was born to a family of diplomats. He attended high school in Panama. He then went to the United States and enrolled at Texas A&M University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science and foreign languages in 1986 and a master's degree in Spanish literature in 1988. He was designated as the Taiwanese representative to the United States in November 2023 after the resignation of Hsiao Bi-khim. He had also served several diplomat offices including the vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwanese ambassador to Paraguay, director of the Taiwanese Representative Office in the Latin America and the Caribbean.

In December 2023, Yui succeeded Hsiao Bi-khim as the Taiwanese representative to the United States.

Personal life Yui is fluent in Spanish and English, and conversational in French. He speaks English with a Panamanian accent. His father was also a diplomat.