title: Yang Jen-ni
text: # Yang Jen-ni
  
  Yang Jen-ni (Chinese: 楊珍妮; pinyin: Yáng Zhēnnī) is a Director-General.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Yang was born in November 1954.
  
  ## Education
  
  Yang received her bachelor's degree in Foreign Literature from National Taiwan University in 1978.
  
  ## Career
  
  Yang currently serves as both the Director-General of Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT), Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Deputy Chief Negotiator; she is also the first female General-Director in the BOFT since 1969.
  
  She joined the MOEA in 1983 and over the past 30 years has held a number of senior positions within MOEA and served at Taiwan's Permanent Mission to the WTO in Geneva.
  
  