Lobsang Sangay

Lobsang Sangay ( born 1968 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India) is a lawyer and expert on international law, as well as politicians. At Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he worked until he was elected end of April 2011 as the successor of Lobsang Tenzin as prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile. Since then he called Dharamsala as the center of his life.

Life

Sangay grew up in a Tibetan settlement in India and attended the Central School for Tibetans in Sonada and Darjeeling. He earned his BA (Honors ) in English Literature and the LLB at the Delhi University. He was elected as the youngest board member of the Tibetan Youth Congress ( CENTREX ) in 1992, a designated as a "terrorist organization" by the State Council of the People's Republic of China during the Tibetan unrest in 2008 grouping.

As a Fulbright Scholar, he earned the 1996 Masters and the 2004 Doctor 's degree in law at the Harvard Law School. He was the first Tibetan who there received this item and his dissertation Democracy and History of the Tibetan Government -in- Exile from 1959-2004 ( " Democracy and History of the Tibetan government in exile from 1959 to 2004 " ) was awarded the Yong K. Kim '95 Prize of the East Asian Legal studies ( EFSA ) study program awarded to the HLS. Him a waiver has been granted in order to continue his scientific work in the U.S. can 2005 by the Ministry of Education of the United States.

In 2007 he was elected by the Asia Society as one of the Young Leaders of Asia (boys leaders of Asia ) and for delegates to the World Justice Forum in Vienna ( Austria ), reflecting top lawyers and judges gather from around the world.

In 2008, he said as an expert before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs ( Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations East Asia and the Pacific ) from, along with John Negroponte, the former Deputy Secretary of State of the United States.

Lobsang Sangay is married and has one child. In Tibet itself, he has not yet been. Sangay speaks Tibetan, English, Hindi, Nepali and some Tshangla ( in Pemakö dialect) and Chinese.

Political career

After the Dalai Lama had announced plans to retire from his political duties, Lobsang Sangay was considered a promising candidate for the post of prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala (India). Before the election in April 2011, Lobsang Sangay presented as an expert on International Law, Democratic Constitutionalism, and Conflict Resolution. He pointed out that he had, among other things, two meetings between the Dalai Lama and Chinese scholars in the years organized at Harvard University in 2003 and 2009. As reported by the Electoral Commission, he was elected with 55 percent of the vote for the new prime minister. On 8 August 2011, Lobsang Sangay was officially introduced in the presence of the Dalai Lama in his office.

Videos

  • Youtube.com: Dr. Sangay, Lobsang on Situation in Tibet - www.Youtube.com / Tibet archives - English
  • Youtube.com: Dr. Lobsang Sangay • Special Meeting in Dharamsala - English

Writings (selection )

  • Lobsang Sangay: Human rights and Buddhism: cultural relativism, individualism & universalism. Harvard Law School, 1996.
  • Lobsang Sangay: Tibet: Exiles ' Journey. In: Journal of Democracy. 14, No. 3, 2003, pp. 119-130.
  • Lobsang Sangay: Democracy in distress: is exile polity a remedy: a case study of Tibet 's government in exile. Harvard Law School, June 2004.
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