The International Tibet Network’s Steering Committee is responsible for setting policy, ensuring the Network meets its financial and legal commitments and hiring the Executive Director. Steering Committee members are elected from all the regions of the world where there are Tibet Groups (six continents).

Dorjee Tseten, Co-Chair

Susan Dayan, Co-Chair

Composition of the Steering Committee

The Steering Committee consists of representatives elected by the International Tibet Network’s member organisations on a regional basis. The Tibetan Government in Exile appoints a two-person liaison for purposes of assuring dialogue, consultation and co-ordination. The International Tibet Network operates independently of the Tibetan Government in Exile, and its two-person liaison representatives have no voting rights on the Steering Committee. The number of seats on the Steering Committee for each region is set out below. This structure takes into consideration the number of groups, the number of countries with groups and the number of United Nations member states in each region.

Current Steering Committee Members are as follows (Name in alphabetical order, country and region they represent)

Adam Pantouw
(East & South East Asia)

Han Vandenabeele
Belgium (Western Europe)

Tenzin Nawang Tekan
(Canada)

Carlos Ramón Bautista Dávila
Mexico (Central & South America)

Dolma Yangchen
India (South Asia)

Dorjee Tseten
India (South Asia) | Co Chair

Giovanni Vassallo
(USA)

Günther Cologna
Italy (Western Europe)

Kyinzom Dhongdue
Australia (Australasia)

Lhadon Tethong
USA (USA)

Martin Bursik
Czech Republic (Central & Eastern Europe and Russia)

Migmar Dolma Dhakyel
Switzerland (Western Europe)

Migmar Wangdu Raith
Switzerland (Western Europe)

Natasha Inozemtseva
Russia (Central & Eastern Europe and Russia)

Ngawang Choedak
Sweden (Northern Europe)

Sandra Erickson
Brazil (Central and South America)

Sonam Dagpo
Observer, representing the Tibetan Government in Exile

Sonam Sangmo, TSG Desk Officer
Observer Representing the Tibetan Government in Exile

Susan Dayan
Israel (Middle East and Africa) | Co Chair

Narender Kumar
India (South Asia)

Tenzin Jigme
(USA) | Chief Financial Officer

Wangchuk Shakabpa
(USA)

Steering Committee members of the International Tibet Network with staff and alternates at the Annual General Meeting in Brussels, September 2016.

To contact any of the International Tibet Network Steering Committee, please email: mail@tibetnetwork.org or go to Contact Us.