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 (In alphabetical order by first name, country and region they represent)

Dolma Yangchen
India (South Asia)

Günther Cologna
Italy (Western Europe) | Co Chair

Han Vandenabeele
Belgium (Western Europe)

Katerina Bursikova Jacques
Czech Republic (Central & Eastern Europe and Russia)

Lhadon Tethong
(USA) | Co Chair

Tony Dunne
Ireland (Western Europe)

Migmar Wangdu Raith
Switzerland (Western Europe)

Namgyal Tsomo Svenningsen
Norway (Northern Europe)

Narender Kumar
India (South Asia)

Janis Martins Skuja
Latvia (Central & Eastern Europe and Russia)

Ngawang Tashi
(USA)

Raymundo Zaldívar
Mexico (Central & South America)

Rinzin Choedon
India (South Asia)

Karen Villar
Costa Rica (Central and South America)

Sherap Therchin
(Canada)

Karma Choeying
Observer, representing the Tibetan Government in Exile

Susan Dayan
Israel (Middle East and Africa)

Tenzin Donzey, TSG Liaison Officer
Observer, representing the Tibetan Government in Exile

Tenzin Jigme
(USA) | Chief Financial Officer

Tenzing Dhamcho
(USA)

Tsering Dorjee
Japan (East & South East Asia)

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.