SONAM NORBU DAGPO
Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Sonam Dagpo was born in Dagpo region of U-Tsang (Central Tibet) in 1956 and escaped to India in 1962. He attended the Central Tibetan School in Darjeeling before completing both a Bachelor and Masters degree in History at Delhi University. Sonam Dagpo also holds a Bachelor of Education from Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi and a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Prior to joining the Central Tibetan Administration in 1987, Sonam Dagpo was an active member of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), serving as executive member and President of Regional TYC, Delhi from 1975 to 1978. He was elected as member of the Central Executive Committe of TYC from 1981 to 1983 and President from 1983 to 1986. Sonam Dagpo also taught at the SFF School in Herbertpur from 1980 to 1983. Sonam Dagpo’s first role within the Central Tibetan Administration was as a research officer in the Research and Analysis Section of the Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi. He has since worked within the Kashag (Cabinet) Secretariat and held a number of roles within the Department of Information and International Relations, including Head of the India and China Desk, Additional Secretary and, since 2004, Secretary (International Relations).
In 1991 Sonam Dagpo was appointed as one of the member of the Tibetan Election Commission for the election of the 11th Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies. Between 1997 and 1998 he was Secretary of the Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi.
Sonam Dagpo has been a member of the Task Force for Negotiations with the People’s Republic of China. He has been a member of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s delegation to China from 2002 to 2008.
In addition to his many posts within the Central Tibetan Administration, Sonam Dagpo has been a member of the organizing committees of all five International Tibet Support Group Conferences (Dharamsala, Bonn, Berlin, Prague and Brussels), and a member of the organizing committees of the International Year of Tibet and the Celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Nobel Peace Prize. Sonam Dagpo has also attended many international and national conferences on Tibet and is a founding member of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy and the Tibetan Young Buddhist Association.
NGODUP GYALTSEN
Executive Secretary
Mr. Ngodup Gyaltsen Udak was born in the small village of Tidhey in the Purang District of South Western Tibet and escaped to India with his late parents and other family members as Political Refugee in 1959.
Ngodup under took special training after completing his education at Kalakshetra, Madras which included Accountancy, Community Developments, Projects Management and the Management of Co-operative Societies.
He had served Tibetan Communities and the Central Tibetan Administration since 1973 in various assignment which include: Chief Accountant at Tibetan Co-operative Society Mundgod and Chief Accountant at Tibetan Dickey Larsoe Co-operative Society Bykuppe in South India; Tibetan Welfare and Project Officer, Kullu Manali, Himachal Pradesh; Project Officer, Department of Health, Dharamsala looking after the management of Tibetan Hospitals and health clinics in Tibetan Settlement in South and Central India; Secretary of Tibetan Dickey Larsoe Co-operative Society – Bylakuppe; Tibetan Welfare Officer and Manager of Phuntsok Ling Tibetan Handicraft Centre, Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh; Representative at Dhondenling Tibetan Settlement, Kollegal, South India;
Ngodup was at the Department of Home, Dharmasala as the Internal Audit / Inspector until his recent posting as Executive Secretary / Office Manager for the Tibet Information Office, Canberra Australia.
Mrs. DADON
China Desk Staff
Mrs. Dadon has joined the Tibet Information Office from Ist October 2009 as China Desk Staff. She will try provide information on Tibet and Tibetans to the Chinese speaking communities in Australia and New Zealand. Mrs. Dadon was educated in Tibet and later at Taiwan. She has worked as news reporter in the Office of Voice of Tibet Norway, based in Dharamsala, for the last almost 8 years till her migration to Australia in the year 2008.
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