Dawa Dem

Dawa Dem
ཟླ་བ་སྒྲོལམོ
Private Secretary, Royal Secretariat
In office
1 June 1965 – October 1967
MonarchJigme Dorji Wangchuck
Ramjam, Thimphu District Administration
In office
October 1967 – July 1971
Protocol Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In office
July 1971 – 1973
MonarchsJigme Dorji Wangchuck
Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Councillor, Royal Advisory Council
In office
1973–1985
MonarchJigme Singye Wangchuck
Secretary, National Women's Association of Bhutan
In office
23 February 1985 – 2009
Personal details
Born(1944-05-16)16 May 1944
Haa, Bhutan
Died15 February 2018(2018-02-15) (aged 73)
Thimphu, Bhutan

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.