Chen Chu

Chen Chu (born 10 June 1950), also known as Kiku Chen or Joyce Chen, is a Taiwanese politician serving as president of the Control Yuan and chairwoman of the National Human Rights Commission since 2020. Before assuming her current post, Chen had served as Secretary-General to the President from 2018 to 2020 and Mayor of Kaohsiung from 2006 to 2018, making her the longest-serving mayor of the city since the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. Prior to her entrance into politics, Chen was one of the eight prominent dissidents in the Kaohsiung Incident arrested and charged in 1979. She was a political prisoner for almost six years during the martial law period in Taiwan.