The Taiwan Fund, Inc. announced that the Board of Directors of the Fund has nominated Ms. Shelley Rigger for election as a Director at the Fund's upcoming Annual Meeting of Stockholders on April 21, 2016 (the 2016 Annual Meeting). Ms. Rigger would replace Mr. M. Christopher Canavan, Jr., who has chosen not to stand for re-election as a director of the Fund. Ms. Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Studies at Davidson College.