Lobsang Sangay: Tibet: A Failure of China's World Order

Biography

Lobsang Sangay is a Lecturer on Law and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School. He previously served two terms (2011–2021) as the democratically elected Sikyong (President) of the Tibetan government in exile.

In 2006, he was selected as a Young Leaders by the Asia Society. He has written op-eds for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, and has appeared on BBC and CNN. He was profiled by The New York Times, CNN (Asia), and other news outlets.

Dr. Sangay has received the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse from the Trinity College Dublin (2014), and the Salisbury University Presidential Medal for Distinguished Community Leadership (2015). He has addressed various parliaments and was instrumental in the passage of the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 by the United States Government.

Sangay remains an influential voice on issues of democracy, exile governance, and human rights, frequently speaking at international forums and academic institutions.    He is currently writing a book on Democracy in Exile and co-editing a volume on the Geopolitics of Reincarnation and the Institution of the Dalai Lama.

He studied at the University of Delhi before earning a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School in 1996 and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.)

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