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SCMP Reporter

Hau Lung-pin, 55, son of former premier Hau Pei-tsun
PhD in food science from University of Massachusetts
Married to his National Taiwan University classmate Kao Lang-sin, with two daughters and one son. Wife is a university professor
Broke ranks with Kuomintang to join the New Party in 1995
New Party legislator from 1996 to 2001
Head of Environmental Protection Agency from 2001 to 2003
Secretary general of Taiwan Red Cross from 2004 to 2006
Returned to KMT last year  to represent the party in the mayoral elections
Beat Frank Hsieh Chang-ting, of the Democratic Progressive Party, and James Soong Chu-yu, of the People First Party, to become mayor of Taipei in December last year



Hau Lung-pin's winding route to city hall