Dr. Gerrit Van Der Wees (韋傑理博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Dr. Gerrit Van Der Wees
- Chinese: 韋傑理博士
- Era: 1945
- Geography: The Hague/Netherland
- Core roles: engineer, professor, journalist, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Dr. Gerrit Van Der Wees 韋傑理博士 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心
Education
- Delft Univ. of Technology — 1971 — B.S., Aerospace Engineering
- Univ. of Washington — 1975 — M.S., Aerospace Engineering — 1981 — Ph. D., Interdisciplinary Program
Employment
- Taiwan Communiqué — Chief Editor — (1980-2016) — George Mason University & George Washington University — Professor (Teaching the History of Taiwan) — (2012-) — Community — FAPA — Senate Liaison (2005-2016)
Family
- Wife: |陳美津
Role in the Community
- Founded and edited Taiwan Commiqué (台灣公報), serving as Chief Editor 1980–2016; the TAH oral-history memoir 2016) records him as a “台灣子婿” (son-in-law of Taiwan) who continued public work after retirement.
- FAPA (Formosan Association for Public Affairs): Senate Liaison 2005–2016; his own account of leaving the role is preserved in 2016).
- The couple’s decades of human-rights advocacy are profiled in 民報 「跨洋書寫30餘載 韋傑理夫婦為台灣人權奔走」 (2017-12-30), cross-referenced from the 台灣會館 coverage at 爾灣場報導（台灣justice.net）.
- His own encyclopedia entry is archived at [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-804-gerrit-van-der-wees|TAH Who’s Who #804]].
- Wife 陳美津 (Mei-Chin van der Wees) served as 2006 會長 of the 華府台灣同鄉會 (TAA Greater Washington/Baltimore), per the 歷屆會長芳名錄 in Our Journeys 138（華府與巴城TAA的誕生） — the couple’s community leadership spanned both advocacy and local association life.
- Photographed in 2012 with President 蔡英文 at FAPA headquarters (Washington DC) during her US visit, in the roster picture captioned in Our Journeys 228（昆布勞與FAPA的故事）.
- His own English op-ed preserved in the TJJ corpus: 「The Chinese shadow on Taiwan’s elections」, written 2012-01-29 — TJJ archive — documenting his commentator role in Taiwan’s election discourse alongside his editorial work at Taiwan Commiqué.
- Quoted as GWU Elliott School adjunct professor on US–Taiwan policy: explaining the US “全政府方式” (whole-of-government approach) to higher-level contacts with Taiwan’s elected government in 在不改變「一中」政策情況下，美國鼓勵與台灣建立更緊密關係（TJJ, 2021-04-13）, and on the Taiwan-Strait language of the 2021-04-16 Biden–Suga summit (Taiwan’s strategic position on Japan’s shipping lanes, historical ties) in 菅義偉與拜登再次確認台海和平重要性（TJJ, 2021-04-16）.
- During the 2022-08 Pelosi visit he published a column in the Dutch paper NRC (reposted via taiwanjustice.net) arguing Pelosi should visit Taiwan steadfastly as a commitment to Taiwanese democracy: 「台灣人為民主奮鬥，值得國際社會的一切支持」 — 裴洛西座機自關島連夜起飛（TJJ repost）.
- 2024-05-24, listed as 台灣公報（Taiwan Communique）發行人 among ~30 international scholars who co-signed an open letter in foreign press on the 國會職權修法 constitutional controversy — 30國際學者投書外媒（TJJ, 2024-05-24）. (發行人/publisher label here vs. Chief Editor 1980–2016 in his TAH record: same role family, no date conflict — not merged.)
- Corpus grep 2026-09-19: beyond the above, remaining article hits are category/index pages (買票作票見聞錄) and the already-linked 鄭文龍/台灣會館 coverage — nothing further absorbable.