Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa
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 a former official of the Tibetan Government in Exile. He was the Representative of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile for Central Europe|Central, Eastern Europe and, United Nations in Geneva, as the head of the Tibet Bureau in Geneva and later at the Tibet Bureau in Brussels primarily responsible for European Union and European Parliament Begligum. He was appointed as Representative in Geneva on 1 April 2008 and 1 October 2014 in Brussels.[1][2] 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 a refugee camp in the Himalayas 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 Gaden Phodrang Foundation of the Dalai Lama, Switzerland and a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[3]
Since 2016 April, he returned to Dharamsala, India. He is one of the Secretaries to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "Prague Declaration - Declaration Text". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. 3 June 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
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