Christine Tsung was appointed president and chief executive of China Airlines on 6 July 2000, a year after returning to Taiwan after three decades in the USA.
A graduate of the Department of Business Administration of the National Taiwan University, Tsung also studied Quantitative Business Analysis at Washington University and holds an MBA from the University of Missouri.
Tsung has held posts at several multinational companies in the USA, including Columbia Pictures and Electrolux. Between 1982 and 1995 she worked as finance director for the City of Poway in California. After that she was president of an investment company in Beverly Hills, California.
In June 1999 she returned to Taiwan after being recruited by the City of Kaohsiung to work as a consultant on the city's mass rapid transit project.
During her extended stay in the USA, Tsung became a member of a number of professional organisations, including the American Association of Management.
She has entries in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America.
USA-based Travel Agent magazine ranked her as one of the 100 most powerful women in the travel industry for 2000.
Married, Tsung is fond of art and reading, as well as swimming, skiing, tennis and golf.
Source: Airline Business
