Nita Ing

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Nita Ing (殷琪; b. 1955) is a Taiwanese executive and the CEO of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, the company which built a high speed railway system from Taipei to Kaohsiung. A supporter of the Democratic Progressive Party, she has been an advisor to President Chen Shui-bian.

Her career as a construction magnate took place largely within Taiwan's Continental Engineering Corporation, of which she has served as president and CEO.

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[edit] Early Personal Life Experiences

Ing was expelled from Taipei American School for "rowdy behavior" and sent to a Massachusetts boarding school in the 1970s when she was a teenager. She then majored in economics at University California at Los Angeles (UCLA). [1]

She has two children, but in accordance with her feminist principles, has never married.

She is a follower of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a Tibetan Buddhist organization. [2]

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  1. ^ From "The Stars of Asia," in the July 3, 2000 international edition of Business Week.
  2. ^ Work a Day for Rinpoche (published list of donors)

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