Mr. Hsiao received his B.A in International Studies from the American University's School of International Service and the University Honors Program. His areas of concentration are cross-Strait relations, East Asia democratization, Chinese and Taiwanese foreign policy and U.S. foreign policy towards East Asia. He has worked and studied extensively in East Asia, which include spending a semester at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He also frequently travels around the region for research and regularly participates in track II diplomatic dialogues in the Asia-Pacific region as a member of the Young Leaders' Program of the Honolulu based think tank Pacific Forum CSIS. He previously interned in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation where he worked closely with leading Asia analysts on U.S. foreign policy toward East Asia. Most recently, Mr. Hsiao worked at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD), a leading grant making and research institute based in Taipei, where he did programming and research on institution building, civil society development, and democratization in Asia. He served as assistant coordinator of the World Forum for Democratization in Asia (WFDA). Mr. Hsiao is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.