Lobsang Sangay for 2011 Kalon Tripa

Dr. Lobsang Sangay, LL.M., S.J.D. is presently a Senior Fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. After graduating from Tibetan Refugee school in Darjeeling, he received his BA (Honors), and LLB from Delhi University, India, in 1995, and won a Fulbright scholarship to Harvard Law School where he received his LLM. In 2004, he became the first Tibetan (among six million) to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard Law School, and was a recipient of the 2004 Yong K. Kim 95 Prize of Excellence for his dissertation "Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet's Government-in-exile." In 2006, he was selected as one of the twenty-four Young Leaders of Asia by the Asia Society, a global organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States. In India, he was elected the youngest national executive member ever of the Tibetan Youth Congress (CENTREX), the largest NGO among Tibetans in exile. For the last thirteen years, in his Track II initiative work, Dr. Sangay has organized six unprecedented conferences between Chinese and Tibetan scholars at Harvard University, including a rare meeting between HH the Dalai Lama and thirty-five mainland Chinese scholars in 2003. Prominent scholars on Tibet from Beijing, Lhasa, Dharamsala, Europe and the US have participated. The latest conference titled "Autonomy in Tibet" was held on November 27-28, 2007. He has given numerous talks on the Sino-Tibet conflict and exile Tibetan issues in various institutes and venues around the world. He has been consulted by the news media, including the BBC, Time, South China Morning Post, Washington Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, and the Boston Globe, and has published articles about the Tibetan issue in the Harvard Asia Quarterly and Journal of Democracy.

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