In 2016, at the behest of President Tsai Ing-wen, Audrey Tang became Taiwan's minister in charge of social innovation. Only 35 years old, Audrey was the youngest and the first-ever transgender minister in Taiwan's history. A child prodigy and largely self-taught, Audrey is known as one of the world's top open source software developers and for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as for building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.