Lai Shyh-bao

Lai Shyh-bao MLY
賴士葆
200px Lai at a press conference related to the 2015 Ma–Xi meeting
Minority Leader of the Legislative Yuan
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2016
Preceded by	Ker Chien-ming
Member of the Legislative Yuan
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2005
Constituency	Taipei 8th
In office 1 February 1999 – 1 February 2002
Majority Leader of the Legislative Yuan
In office 7 February 2015 – 1 February 2016
Preceded by	Alex Fai
Succeeded by	Ker Chien-ming
Personal details
Born	(1951-06-20) 20 June 1951 Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang
Other political affiliations	New Party
Alma mater	National Cheng Kung University, National Chengchi University, University of Southern California
Occupation	Politician

Lai Shyh-bao (Chinese: 賴士葆; born 20 June 1951) is a Taiwanese politician. He has served on the Kuomintang Central Standing Committee, the National Assembly and the Legislative Yuan.

Education

He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from National Cheng Kung University, before studying business administration at the National Chengchi University. Lai taught the subject and eventually chaired the Graduate Institute of Business Administration at NCCU. He returned to engineering while a master's and doctoral student at the University of Southern California.

Political career

From 1999 to 2002, Lai was a New Party legislator. During Lai's second term in the legislature he switched affiliations to the Kuomintang and secured the continued endorsement of the New Party. Lai was also promoted to increasingly important KMT caucus positions. In April 2005 he was deputy secretary of the caucus. By July, Lai had become caucus whip, a position he held until February 2016. Lai was nominated as the Kuomintang candidate for speaker of the ninth Legislative Yuan.