Dicki Chhoyang
Dicki Chhoyan | |
|---|---|
 Dicki Chhoyang, Nice, France, at a meeting of International Tibet Network, 4 November 2011 | |
| Foreign Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration | |
| In office 2011 – 28 February 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | Lobsang Sangay |
| Succeeded by | Lobsang Sangay |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Dickyi Choeyang 1966 Mussoorie, India |
| Citizenship | Canada |
| Alma mater | Indiana University, University of Guelph |
| Occupation | Politician |
Dicki Chhoyang or Dickyi Choeyang (Tibetan: བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་, Wylie: bde-skyid chos-dbyings, Lhasa dialect: [tìcîː t͡ɕʰýjiŋ]), (Mussoorie, India, 1966 -) is a Tibetan politician who was the former Foreign Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration.[1]
Biography
[edit]Dicki Chhoyang was born in Mussoorie, India, in 1966. She immigrated to Canada with her family at 4 years of age. She grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada and began working for the Tibetan community at a very young age. Around the age of 20 years, she worked in two key projects. On the one hand, she participated in the first Canadian documentary on Tibet called A Song for Tibet made by the National Film Board of Canada, and secondly to the US-Tibetan resettlement project in the United States. She was a local coordinator and helped 21 Tibetans relocate in Connecticut. At the age of 27, she studied and worked 10 years in Tibet and China.[2] In December 1999, at Indiana University, MA, she got a degree in Central Eurasian studies.[3] In 2006, she also obtained a M.Sc. from the University of Guelph.[4]
Candidate for election in 2011, she was elected the Electorate of North America becoming Deputy of the 15th Assembly Tibetan Parliament in exile. In September 2011, she was replaced by Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang when she was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the 14th Tibetan Kashag.[5] she resigned from her post on 28 February 2016.[citation needed]
In February 2020, she was appointed as the Interim Director for McGill University's Indigenous Initiatives.[6]
Publications
[edit]- Dicki Tsomo Chhoyang, Tibetan-medium higher education in Qinghai, Indiana University, 1999
- Dicki Tsomo Chhoyang, In Search of the Iron Rice Bowl: A Case Study of Tibetan Rural Household Investment in Higher Education as a Livelihood Strategy, University of Guelph, 2006
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Present Kalons". Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ^ Laura-Julie Perreault, Une Montréalaise ministre du gouvernement tibétain en exil, La Presse, 9 May 2012
- ^ MA Degrees Awarded to Program Majors :: Graduate Programs
- ^ Bio[permanent dead link]
- ^ Tendar Tsering, Tashi Namgyal sworn in as Member of Parliament Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, 27 septembre 2011.
- ^ "Dicki Chhoyang". mcgill.ca. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
External links
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- People from Mussoorie
- Members of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration
- Female foreign ministers
- Foreign ministers of Tibet
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Tibetan activists
- Tibetan women in politics
- Tibetan women activists
- Tibetan academics
- Indiana University Bloomington alumni
- University of Guelph alumni
- Tibetan–French translators
- Canadian people of Tibetan descent
- Academic staff of McGill University
- Tibetan diaspora in India