TEAM Staff - Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement (TEAM)

TEAM -STAFF

Tsering Yangkey Executive Director	Thinley Norbu Program Director	Ugen Tsepel Research Officer	Yungdung Nyima Research Officer	Tashi Lhamo Computer & Communication Officer

TEAM’s Staff: Tsering Yangkey,Thinley Norbu, Ugyen Tsephel, Yungdung Nyima and Tashi Lhamo
TEAM’s Core Working Group cum Board Members: Tsering Yangkey, Thinley Norbu, Tashi Tsering and Kunthar

Executive Director:

Mrs. Tsering Yangkey Tsering Yangkey served as the Head of the Environment and Development Desk of the Central Tibetan Administration for four years before she left her position to start Tesi Environmental Awareness Movement. Ms. Yangkey has a BA in Biology from Berea College, Kentucky and an MS in Environmental Pollution Control from Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Yangkey has done several internships in the States such as at the International Crane Foundation and Blandy Arboretum of the University of Virginia. Ms. Yangkey has attended numerous international conferences, including the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, United Nations Commissions on Human Rights and World Social Forum.

Programme Director:

Mr. Thinley Norbu. Program Director, Tibetan Environmental Awareness Movement Thinley Norbu served as the Project Manager cum Tibet Support Group Liaison Officer for the Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration Tibetan during his 8 years of service. Mr. Norbu has a BA in Journalism from Bangalore University and several diplomas in Public Relations, Programme Management and International Diplomacy. Mr. Norbu has attended several International Meetings including IUCN’s 3rd World Conservation Congress in Thailand.

Policy Director:

Mr. Tashi Tsering, Board Member, Tibetan Environmental Awareness Movement Tashi Tsering is the editor of TRIN-GYI-PHO-NYA, a bimonthly journal on Tibet’s environment and development. Mr. Tsering is also the Director of Environment and Development Program of Tibet Justice Center, a non-profit organization that does legal advocacy for Tibetans. As a Tibet Justice Center representative, Mr. Tsering is the key Tibetan responsible for the landmark international environmental (IUCN 2000) resolution for the protection of Tibet’s transboundary rivers, negotiated face-to-face with China’s representatives. Educated in Mussoorie (India) Central School for Tibetans, Mr. Tsering continued to earn a B.A. from Bangalore University and MA’s in Economics from Garhwal University and International Politics from Portland State University. He has published numerous articles and reports on Tibet’s environment, with an academic research focus on the political economy of China’s water management.

Chief Editor(Chinese/Tibetan):

Mr. Kunthar, Board Member, Tibetan Environmental Awareness Movement Kunthar serves as the Founder/Director of the Tibetan Translation House and has translated at least twenty Tibet and His Holiness related books in Chinese. Mr. Kunthar also wrote a couple of books in Tibetan on China’s Development Policies in Tibet and written numerious articles in Tibetan and Chinese in various books and newspapers. He is also the Vice President and International Relations Director for the PEN Tibet Centre, a Tibetan Writers’ Association. Mr. Kunthar has an equavalent of a BA in Mathematics from Kanlho National College, a BA in Biology from North-Western Teacher Training University in Lanzhou in Gansu, China and diploma in Social Science Research methods in the South-Western National University in Chengdu in Sichuan.

Research Officer:

Mr. Ugen Tsepel, Research Officer, Tibetan Environmental Awareness Movement Ugyen Tsephel was born in Mey-dro-Ghunkhar in Tibet. He has learned Tibetan and Chinese language as his primary education in Tibet. In 1991, he came to India and continued his studies in Tibetan Children Village School, Suja. After passing the 10th grade he joined Central School for Tibetan in Mundgod for two years. He further completed his B.A cum B.ed in Tibetan from Sarah College.

Research Officer:

Ven. Yungdung Nyima Yungdung Nyima Ven. Nyima went to Tibetan Children's Village School up till grade twelve. After that he joined Menri and Triten Norbutse Bon Universities where he not only received Zongchen trainings and degrees but also practiced for many years in the caves of Dolpo, Nepal. Knowing his interests in ecology and the Tibetan wisdom culture, we requested Ven. Nyima to join TEAM to fulfil our mission in reviving the ecological consciousness of the Tibetan people. Fortunately, Ven. Nyima has agreed to work with us for some time.

Computer cum Communication Officer:

Mrs. Tashi Lhamo Tashi Lhamo Tashi Lhamo is our computer cum communication officer. Tashi has a bachelor's degree from the Gharwal University in Dehradun and also has advance diplomas in software programming, Computer Hardware, Web Development, Linux Administration, and database serving administration and networking from various institutions in India including the Indian Institute of Hardware Technology Limited, Bangalore. Tashi also worked at the Tibetan Computer Resource Centre of the Tibetan Government-in-exile (TGIE) for six years and developed many database and websites. At TGIE Tashi was the email operator cum file manager and then Webmaster of the official website www.tibet.net and was also the section head of Database Development section of TCRC.