Honorific-Prefix: | Lyonpo |
Karma Donnen Wangdi | |
Native Name Lang: | dz |
Office: | Minister for Information and Communication |
Term Start: | 7 November 2018 |
Primeminister: | Lotay Tshering |
Predecessor: | Dina Nath Dhungyel |
Office1: | Member of the National Assembly of Bhutan |
Term Start1: | 31 October 2018 |
Predecessor1: | Gopal Gurung |
Constituency1: | Gelephu |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Alma Mater: | Sherubtse College MCMIS |
Party: | Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa |
Karma Donnen Wangdi is a Bhutanese politician who has been Minister for Information and Communication since November 2018.[2] He has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan, since October 2018.[3] Previously he was the member of the National Council of Bhutan from 2008 to 2013.[4] [5]
Wangdi was born on .[6]
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Sherubtse College, Bhutan. He completed his Postgraduate Diploma in IT from the MCMIS, the Netherlands.[6] [1]
Wangdi is a member of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT).[1]
He was elected to the National Council of Bhutan from Sarpang in the Bhutanese National Council election, 2008.[7]
He was elected to the National Assembly of Bhutan in the 2018 elections for the Sarpang-Gelegphu[1] [6] constituency.[4] He received 6,691 votes and defeated Pema Tashi, a candidate of DPT.[8]
On 3 November, Lotay Tshering formally announced his cabinet structure and Wangdi was named as Minister for Information and Communication.[4] On 7 November 2018, he was sworn in as Minister for Information and Communication in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lotay Tshering.[2] [9]