

Thu, Apr 13
|TAC community center
Public Talk by Sisur Lobsang Sangey Lak
All Tibetans are invited and encouraged to participate in an interactive session with Honorable Sisur, Lobsang Sangay Lak
Time & Location
Apr 13, 2023, 5:30 PM
TAC community center, 34 Garden Center, Broomfield, CO 80020, USA
About
Lobsang Sangay was the first democratically-elected prime minister of the Central Tibetan Administration’s government-in-exile and served two terms (2011-21). An expert in Tibetan law and international human rights law, he was a senior fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Sangay was a Fulbright Scholar and was the first Tibetan to earn a Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Harvard Law School. In 2006, the Asia Society named Sangayone of its 24 Young Leaders of Asia. Sangay was born and raised in a Tibetan refugee settlement in Darjeeling, India. His father was a Buddhist monk who fled Tibet in 1959, the same year as the Dalai Lama. After graduating from the University of Delhi, he received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1995. In 1996, he received a fellowship from the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pacific Basin Research…