Suraj Budathoki

Suraj Budathoki
Member-elect of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives
from the Hillsborough 40th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 4, 2024
Personal details
Political partyDemocratic[1]

Suraj K. Budathoki (b. Samrang, Bhutan) is an American politician who is the member-elect for the Hillsborough 40th district of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.[2]

Budathoki is of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese (Lhotshampa) heritage. As a child, he was deported from Bhutan along with his family and spent 19 years in a refugee camp in Nepal.[3] He came to the United States as a resettled Bhutanese refugee in 2009.[4]

He earned a bachelor's degree from Southern New Hampshire University in 2015, and a graduate degree from Norwich University in 2018.[5] He is a Ph.D. candidate at Saybrook University in California.[6] His career experience includes working as a business executive and he is the founder of Peace Action Bhutan

  1. ^ "Suraj Budathoki". CitizensCount. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
  2. ^ "Suraj Budathoki". Ballotpedia. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
  3. ^ https://www.wmur.com/article/bhutanese-couple-new-hampshire-refugees/39996380
  4. ^ https://refugeecongress.org/delegates-1/suraj-budathoki1
  5. ^ https://ballotpedia.org/Suraj_Budathoki
  6. ^ https://sapannews.com/2023/03/29/sapan-turns-two-calls-for-a-saarc-summit/