Dawa Dem | |
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ཟླ་བ་སྒྲོལམོ | |
Private Secretary, Royal Secretariat | |
In office 1 June 1965 – October 1967 | |
Monarch | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck |
Ramjam, Thimphu District Administration | |
In office October 1967 – July 1971 | |
Protocol Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
In office July 1971 – 1973 | |
Monarchs | Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Jigme Singye Wangchuck |
Councillor, Royal Advisory Council | |
In office 1973–1985 | |
Monarch | Jigme Singye Wangchuck |
Secretary, National Women's Association of Bhutan | |
In office 23 February 1985 – 2009 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Haa, Bhutan | 16 May 1944
Died | 15 February 2018 Thimphu, Bhutan | (aged 73)
Dasho Dawa Dem (Dzongkha: ཟླ་བ་སྒྲོལམོ; 16 May 1944 – 15 February 2018) was a Bhutanese bureaucrat. The first woman to join the Bhutanese civil service, she held positions in various government branches, namely the Royal Secretariat, the Thimphu District Administration, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Royal Advisory Council, in a career spanning two decades, from 1965 to 1985. She helped establish the National Women's Association of Bhutan in 1981 was appointed its secretary in 1985. She retired in 2009 and died in 2018.