Univ. of Pennsylvania — 1964 — 1968 — M.S. Economy — Ph.D. Regional Science
Employment
Consad Research Co. — Researcher — (1968-) — United Nations Centre for Regional Development — Director — (1973-) — United Nations Development Programme (聯合國開發計劃署) — Economic Consultant — (1975-1978) — United Nations University — Chief Academic Review Officer, Senior Academic Reviewer, Deputy Director of Institute of Advanced Studies, Honorary Professor — Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan (台北駐日經濟文化代表處) — Ambassador — (2000-2004) — Taiwan-Japan Relations Association (臺灣日本關係協會) — President — (2004-2007) — Community — Taiwanese Association of America / Greater Philadelphia Chapter (大費城台灣同鄉會) — President (1964) — United Formosans in America for Independence — Co-Founder (1966) — Taiwan Tribune (台灣公論報) — First Publisher (1981)
Notable Firsts and Career (absorbed from cited TAH sources)
First person to testify for Taiwan’s future before the U.S. Congress Senate, 1983-11-09 (TAH #364)
First publisher of Taiwan Tribune 台灣公論報, 1981 (TAH #1); first holder of a visa issued by the United Nations (TAH #2)
Co-founder, United Formosans in America for Independence, 1966 — |UFAI
UN career: Consad Research Co. researcher (1968–), Director of United Nations Centre for Regional Development (1973–), UNDP 聯合國開發計劃署 Economic Consultant (1975–1978), United Nations University — Chief Academic Review Officer, Senior Academic Reviewer, Deputy Director of Institute of Advanced Studies, Honorary Professor
Ambassador, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan 台北駐日經濟文化代表處 (2000–2004); President, Taiwan-Japan Relations Association 臺灣日本關係協會 (2004–2007)
Role in the Community (corpus-absorbed 2026-10-09)
UFAI founding, 1966: his own memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys81|Our Journeys #81]] details the 1966-06-18 Philadelphia congress that merged the Taiwan Independence League (UFI) with the Formosans Association for Self-Government of Taiwan (FASG) into UFAI, formally established 1966-07-04 — he attended as a UFI delegate alongside Chen I-te, Wang Po-wen and Su Jin-chun, and later served as one of the central committee members working with Chou Shih-ming. He and Jian Jin-sheng / Li Teng-jun then set out from Philadelphia on the “Liberty Crusade” (自由長征) tour of the northeastern university towns. Consistent with the existing Co-Founder (1966) entry — UFAI.
Taiwan Tribune, 1981: Hung Cheh-sheng’s memoir [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys49|Our Journeys #49]] records the paper operating from July 15 with Hung as director and 羅福全 as publisher (發行人), and his wife 毛清芬 managing the accounts — corroborating the first-publisher record (TAH #1) already on this page.
Early organizing meeting: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys65-eng|Our Journeys #65 (eng)]] lists him among 15 attendees (with Charles Ting, Kenjohn Wang, Ming-che Lin, Jen-Tai Tsai and C.C. Yang) at a February 13 meeting — year not stated in the record — that shelved a radio-station plan in favor of building a diplomatic-advocacy organization.
His own writings: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys156|Our Journeys #156 — 公論報停刊感言 (2015-08)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories382|My Stories #382 — 回首 (2015-12)]].
Pittsburgh Taiwanese Association co-founder, 1969: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys292|Our Journeys #292]] records that after his Penn doctorate (1968) he joined Consad in New York, was reassigned to Pittsburgh in November 1968, and in 1969 co-founded the Pittsburgh Taiwanese Association (匹茲堡台灣同鄉會) with Huang Dong-sheng, Ke Yao-zong and Ke Chiu-hui. His Penn Avenue house was the association’s operating center — including student wedding receptions — until he left for the UN in early 1973. Corroborated by the Yang Yuan-hsun interview cited there and by his memoir From Taiwan to the World and Back (2015).
Liberty Crusade eastern route: he led the eastern leg out of Philadelphia, joining Chen Jung-cheng and Lai Wen-hsiung’s western sweep in Boston ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys234|Our Journeys #234]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys7|Our Journeys #7]]); he and Chou Shih-ming raised the funds for the November 20 New York Times “Self-Help Declaration” (自救宣言) ad. Expands the 1966 UFAI entry above.
1970 Morgantown appearance: photographed with Peng Ming-min, Chou Shih-ming and Thomas Tsai at a Taiwan independence event in Morgantown, West Virginia — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-historical-15|Historical Photo Albums #15]].
Taiwan Tribune founding, 1981: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys63|Our Journeys #63]] — founded July 1981 in Long Island City, NY by the Formosan League for Self-Reliance, with him as founding publisher (發行人) and Hung Cheh-sheng president/editor-in-chief; launched on ~US$120,000 raised from ~2,000 pre-subscriptions, no single patron. [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys33|Our Journeys #33]] dates the first issue to 1981-07-31 (covering the Chen Wen-chen incident), while [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys49|Our Journeys #49]] says operations began July 15 — HOLD: July 15 vs July 31 (likely launch vs first issue; not merged). [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys237|Our Journeys #237]] recalls him as helmsman (主舵) of the paper alongside Formohansa in America’s Formosa Weekly.
Congressional advocacy, 1981: in February 1981 he and the narrator of [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys59|Our Journeys #59]] called on Rep. Bill Solomon, opening the path to the separate 20,000-per-year U.S. immigration quota for Taiwan, signed into law after Christmas 1981 (effective 1982-01-01).
Public campaigns: his wife 毛清芬 appeared on advocacy floats as “Taiwan Tribune publisher Lo’s wife” — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys210|Our Journeys #210]].
1982 World Taiwanese Congress, Houston: at the ninth 世界台灣同鄕會 (1982), he reported for the assembly as the Taiwan Tribune representative (台灣公論報代表), alongside Hsu Hsin-liang (Formosa Magazine), Hsu Jui-feng (Human Rights Association), Su Ying-ming (Formosa Press) and Tsai Tung-rong (FAPA) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys266|Our Journeys #266]]. The record counts the Tribune among the new North American Taiwanese organizations that had appeared since 1979.
His own narrations and biography: oral-history pieces [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys57|Our Journeys #57 (2014-11)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys62|#62 (2014-11)]]; his own first-person account of the congressional testimony, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories135|My Stories #135 — 到美國國會作證 (2014-11)]]; the biography From Taiwan to the World and Back (2015); on his Japan-diplomacy period, [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications467|Publications #467 — 羅福全與台日外交 (2012)]]; 2002 Tokyo photo with the Lu Shu-yi couple — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys126|Our Journeys #126]].
Published biography: 陳柔縉’s 2013 biography [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications247|Publications #247 — 榮町少年走天下: 羅福全回憶錄 (2013-08)]] — the earliest book-length life of him on record in the corpus, predating his own 2015 memoir above.
From the record
2015-11-20 — TAH encyclopedia record #1 “The First publisher of Taiwan Tribune 台灣公論報第一位發行人 / 1981” published, recording him as the first publisher of the Taiwan Tribune (1981) — source
2015-11-20 — TAH encyclopedia record #2 “The first holder of visa, issued by United Nation 第一位持有聯合國護照 / 1973” published, recording him as the first holder of a UN-issued passport (1973) — source
2015-11-20 — TAH encyclopedia record #3 “The first autobiography translate from Hajji(漢字) to English / 2015” published, recording the first autobiography translated from 漢字 into English — source
Absorbed from the cited source list already on this page (no web): the TAH #3 record credits him with the first autobiography translated from Chinese (漢字) into English, completing the firsts series recorded here — #1 first publisher of Taiwan Tribune (1981), #2 first holder of a UN-issued visa, #3 first 漢字→English autobiography, #364 first Senate testimony for Taiwan’s future (1983-11-09).
Philadelphia orbit: his Univ. of Pennsylvania doctorate (1964–1968) and 1964 TAA Greater Philadelphia presidency place him alongside the vault’s Penn-area Taiwanese organizations |Penn Taiwanese Society and |Penn Taiwanese Student Association (vault adjacency only — membership not asserted by the cited records).