Yi-Ting Lien is a former staffer on Taiwan’s National Security Council and was previously a campaign spokesperson for President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan. She holds an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School, an M.S. from the London School of Economics in Communications and Media Studies, and a B.A. in Sociology from National Taiwan University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at University College London in Political Science.