Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa Explained

Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa
Office:	Representative of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile for Central and Eastern Europe
Term Start:	1 April 2008
Predecessor:	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.

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mitarbeiter . . 17 May 2011.
2. Web site: The Tibet Bureau in Geneva . Tibetan Community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein . 2011-05-17 .
3. Web site: Dalai Lama's Geneva Representative Attends International Meet . September 10, 2008 . Phayul . 2011-05-17 .
4. Web site: The Foundation Board . . 2011-05-17 .
5. Web site: Prague Declaration - Declaration Text . 3 June 2008 . . 28 January 2010.