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).

Lhadon Tethong,

Co-Chair

Günther Cologna,

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:

Western Europe

Eleanor Byrne-Rosengren 
Scotland

Günther Cologna
Italy  | Tibet Network Co-Chair

Migmar Wangdu Raith
Switzerland

Tony Dunne
Ireland

Central & Eastern Europe and Russia

Katerina Bursikova Jacques
Czech Republic

Janis Martins Skuja
Latvia

Northern Europe

Namgyal Tsomo Svenningsen
Norway

North America

Chemi Lhamo 
Canada

Tenzin Jigme
USA | Chief Financial Officer

Lhadon Tethong
USA | Tibet Network Co-Chair

Ngawang Tashi
USA

Tenzing Dhamcho
USA

Central & South America

Karen Villar
Costa Rica

Raymundo Zaldívar
Mexico

South Asia

Amruth Joshi |
National Co-Convener, Core Group for Tibetan Cause

Rinzin Choedon
Students for a Free TIbet, India

Tenzin Dolma |
President, Tibetan Women’s Association

East & South East Asia

Tsering Dorjee
Japan

Middle East and Africa

Susan Dayan
Israel

Observer

Karma Choeying
Representing the Tibetan Government in Exile

Tenzin Palmo, TSG Liaison Officer
Representing the Tibetan Government in Exile

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.