Dicki Chhoyang

Dicki Chhoyan
Dicki Chhoyang, Nice, France, at a meeting of International Tibet Network, November 4, 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 IPA: tìcîː t͡ɕʰýjiŋ ), (Mussoorie, India, 1966 -) is a Tibetan exile politician and the former Foreign Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration.[1]

Biography

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 February 28 of 2016.

Publications

  • 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

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Political offices
Preceded by
 Foreign Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration
2011-28 February 2016		 Succeeded by
Lobsang Sangay
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