Ou Chin-der (Chinese: 歐晉德; pinyin: Ōu Jìndé; born November 19, 1944) is a Taiwanese civil engineer.
Ou was an immigrant who moved from the mainland China to the Taitung County of eastern Taiwan with his parents.
He gained public recognition and wide popularity for his effort during the 1999 Chichi earthquake and SARS outbreak, and has since become the leading expert of crisis management in Taiwan.
[1] Due to his civil engineering background and political prestige, Ou became chief executive officer of Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC),[2][3] a private company which holds and manages the Taiwan High Speed Rail, the high-speed rail system of Taiwan, and its related services, on October 1, 2006, just a few months before operation began on January 5, 2007.
[14][15][16] Taiwan High Speed Rail was expected to achieve break-even cash flows for the first time in 2011.