David Cheng-Wei Wu

David Cheng-Wei Wu is one of Taiwan’s top career diplomats in Australia. He commenced his diplomatic journey as a Desk Officer in the Department of European Affairs at MOFA in 2004, then advanced to serve as Third Secretary at the Embassy of the ROC (Taiwan) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2006-2009) and later as Consul at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago, United States (2009-12). Subsequently, he served as Program Director at the APEC Secretariat in Singapore (2015-2018) and First Secretary and Deputy Counselor at the Embassy of the ROC (Taiwan) in Belize (2018-21). From 2021 to 2023, he served as Senior Secretary in the Office of the Vice Minister and was later promoted to Deputy Director General in the Department of West Asian and African Affairs. David Wu is currently Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney, Taiwan’s de facto consulate.