1. Lobsang Nyandak then was the Representative of the 14th Dalai Lama to the Americas and became president of The Tibet Fund.
15 Facts About Lobsang Nyandak
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Lobsang Nyandak was born in Kalimpong, India in 1965 to a Tibetan refugee family.
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Lobsang Nyandak completed his elementary and high school education at SFF Tibetan School in Herbertpur, India, a school for children of Tibetan families recruited into the Special Frontier Force.
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Lobsang Nyandak served as General Secretary of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress in Chandigarh, India.
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Lobsang Nyandak became Executive Secretary and Joint Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Tibetan Youth Congress and later took over as General Secretary of TYC.
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Lobsang Nyandak was the founding Executive Director of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, a non-governmental human rights organisation established in January 1996 in Dharamsala.
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Lobsang Nyandak represented Tibetans at international conferences, such as in 1997 at the UN Human Rights Commission; in 1998 at a conference-debate on Human Rights and Asian values organized by International Federation for Human Rights and Wei Jingsheng on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Commission session in Geneva; in 2001 at the World Conference against Racism in South Africa.
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In 1996, Lobsang Nyandak was elected to the Tibetan Parliament, to represent the province of Kham in Eastern Tibet.
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In 2001, Nyandak was appointed as a Minister during the first tenure of Samdhong Rinpoche, the first elected Prime Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration.
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Lobsang Nyandak moved to the United States with his family in 2007 and joined the Tibet Fund as its Development Director in 2008 until he was appointed as the Representative of the 14th Dalai Lama at the Office of Tibet in United States from September 2008 to 2013.
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Lobsang Nyandak was responsible for organizing visits of the Dalai Lama to North America, including arranging meetings with leaders and educators.
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In 2013, Lobsang Nyandak was appointed as the Executive Director of the Tibet Fund, and in 2017, he became President of the organization.
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Lobsang Nyandak was candidate initially for the 2011 election of Tibetan Prime Minister and a poll directed by Shambala Post estimated he was second in popularity, after Lobsang Sangay.
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Lobsang Nyandak finally decided not to run for the 2011 election.
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On March 2,2020, Lobsang Nyandak publicly announced his candidacy for the 2021 election of Tibetan Prime Minister.