Name: Erik Ringmar
Company: NCTU, Xinzhu, Taiwan
Location: Xinzhu, Taiwan
I was born in Luleå in northern Sweden in 1960 and grew up in Sundsvall, a big industrial town on the Botnic Gulf. I went to the universities in Uppsala and Stockholm, where I studied Japanese language and political science, before going off to the US to do a PhD in political science at Yale University. Over the years I have also lived in Japan, Italy and Thailand and England. From the spring of 2007 I’m a professor at the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. I’m married to Diane Pranzo and we have four daughters: Saga Maria, 12 years old, Beata Amanda, 10, Yrsa Johanna, 7, Rima Birgitta, 4.
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