Shea Jia-dong (Chinese: 許嘉棟; pinyin: Xǔ Jiādòng; born 9 October 1948) is a Taiwanese economist.
After graduating from National Taiwan University, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in the United States in 1978.
[1] After finishing his doctoral degree, Shea went back to Taiwan to work for the Institute of Economics, where he was an associate research fellow from 1978 to 1982 and a research fellow from 1982 to 2000.
[2] Between 1996 and 2000, Shea served as deputy governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
[3] Shea was named finance minister in April 2000,[4] and stepped down in October.