Charlie Chen (Joan of What?)

Charlie Chen, full name Charles Xiangming Chen (: 陳 祥明; Hanyu pinyin: Chén xiángmíng; born 6 February 2009), is a Cygnian doctor and politician currently serving as the 35th Vice Chancellor of Cygnia since 2015. He was jointly elected with Chancellor Dorian Brandt. A member of the Democratic Labour Party, Chen has previously represented the 72nd Electoral District in the National Assembly from 2009 to 2010, and Campbell as an Imperial Senator from 2011 until becoming Vice Chancellor in 2015.

Chen was born to Han immigrants in Esperance, Auralia, in 1980, and lived there for ten years before moving to Campbell. He attained a medical degree at the University of California in 2002. Chen left the medical profession to pursue a political career, and was elected to the National Assembly in 2009, becoming one of the youngest MNAs serving in the 99th Congress. He chose to run for a Senate seat in the 2010 elections, resigning from the National Assembly and becoming a Senator in the 100th Congress in 2011. He was re-elected once in 2012, and remained in the Senate until his resignation to assume the Vice Chancellorship in 2015.

Chen unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Labour cancellarial nomination in 2014, dropping out early in the race. In the 2014 cancellarial election, Dorian Brandt chose Chen to be his running mate in the race, which they won. Chen became the first atheist, and the first individual of Han descent, to be Vice Chancellor of Cygnia.

As Vice Chancellor in the Brandt administration, Chen has overseen the education reforms enacted by the Chancellor, as well as those to the immigration system.