Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa | |
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| Representative of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile for Central and Eastern Europe | |
| Assumed office 1 April 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Kelsang Gyaltsen |
Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa is an official of the Tibetan Government in Exile. He is the Representative of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile for Central and Eastern Europe and the head of the Tibet Bureau in Geneva.[1] He was appointed as Representative on 1 April 2008, succeeding Kelsang Gyaltsen.[2][3] He has previously worked for the Tibetan exile government in India and London. He is a graduate of Columbia University in New York, and was born in Nepal after his parents had escaped from Tibet in 1959, after the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China.[citation needed]
He is a board member of the Tibet Institute Rikon,[4] and a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[5]
His deputy is Under-Secretary Dawa Gyatso.[1]
- ^ a b "Mitarbeiter". The Tibet Bureau in Geneva. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ "The Tibet Bureau in Geneva". Tibetan Community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ "Dalai Lama's Geneva Representative Attends International Meet". Phayul. 10 September 2008. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ "The Foundation Board". Tibet Institute Rikon. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ "Prague Declaration - Declaration Text". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. 3 June 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2010.