Mr. Tempa Tsering

Tempa Tsering was born in 1950 in Drumpa, Gyaltse, Tibet, and fled to India in 1959. He completed high school at Dr. Grahams Homes in Kalimpong and earned a B.Sc. in Zoology from Madras Christian College. He was the first Tibetan to graduate from this college and held various positions within the Central Tibetan Administration, including interpreter, office secretary, and deputy secretary. He served as the secretary of the Department of Information and International Relations and as chief coordinator at the Chief Representative’s Office in Karnataka.

Elected as a minister in 2000, Tsering held the portfolio for the Department of Home until 2001. He was nominated as Kalon for the Department of Information and International Relations in 2006 and served as the representative of the Dalai Lama in New Delhi until 2016. He is currently the director for India and East Asia at the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Campaign for Tibet. He married Jetsun Pema, the younger sister of the Dalai Lama.