Original sentence: From there, she went to work at the United Nations' International Labour Office in Geneva.Mai Chen (b.Quietly influential in halls of power.Returning to New Zealand, she became Victoria University's youngest senior law lecturer before leaving for law firm Russell McVeagh.She is a founding partner of the law firm Chen & Palmer, alongside former New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer.She is married to John Sinclair with one son.She left them after a year and mortgaged her house for cash to set up Chen Palmer with former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer in 1994.She obtained her law degree with first class honours from Otago University and got her Masters degree from Harvard University.She was a student of Otago Girls' High School, where she became a head girl.Taiwan, 1964) is a prominent constitutional lawyer in Wellington, New Zealand
Edited sentence: Chen was born in Taiwan in 1964, and moved to New Zealand at the age of four in 1970.Chen went to work at the United Nations' International Labour Office in Geneva.In 1988 she was awarded a Masters degree from Harvard University.In 1989, Chen took up a lectureship at the law school at Victoria University of Wellington, and wrote her first book on the discrimination of women.In 1990, she chaired a government review on the Policy of Excluding Women from Combat, and in 1992 she became the youngest Senior Lecturer in Law in New Zealand at that time.In 1993, she co-authored Public Law in New Zealand with Sir Geoffrey Palmer, which was published by Oxford University Press, and in 1994 left academia to become a lawyer for Russell McVeagh, but left after a year and mortgaged her house for cash to set up Chen Palmer with former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer.Mai Chen (born in Taiwan, 1964) is a prominent constitutional lawyer in Wellington, New Zealand.She is a founding partner of the law firm Chen Palmer, alongside former New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer.She is married to John Sinclair and has one son.She obtained her law degree with first class honours from Otago University, and was admitted to the bar in 1986.She was a student of Otago Girls' High School, where she became a head girl and was awarded Dux.Women and Discrimination: New Zealand and the United Nations Convention (1989)