Tandi Dorji

Lyonpo Dr.
Tandi Dorji
རྟ་མགྲིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Dorji in 2019
Foreign Minister for Bhutan
Assumed office
7 November 2018
Prime MinisterLotay Tshering
Preceded byDamcho Dorji
Member of the National Assembly of Bhutan
Assumed office
31 October 2018
Preceded byChimi Dorji
ConstituencyLingmukha-Toedwang
Personal details
Born (1968-09-02) September 2, 1968 (age 55)[1]
Political partyDruk Nyamrup Tshogpa
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
University of Sydney
University of Canberra

Tandi Dorji (Dzongkha: རྟ་མགྲིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie : Rta mgrin rdo rje; born 2 September 1968)[1] is a Bhutanese politician who has been Foreign Minister for Bhutan since November 2018.[2][3] He has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan, since October 2018.

Education

He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from Mymensingh Medical College under the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.[4][5] He undertook his residency in Paediatrics from Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) in Pune India. He completed his Master of International Public Health from University of Sydney, Australia[6] and Master of Business Administration from University of Canberra, Australia.[4]

Political career

Before entering politics, he was a pediatrician,[7][8] public health researcher and a technical advisor.[9]

Dorji is a founding member and former president of the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa.[4] He participated in the 2008 and 2013 elections.[10] He was elected to the National Assembly of Bhutan in the 2018 elections for the Lingmukha Toedwang constituency.[2] He received 3,154 votes and defeated Sonam Wangyel Wang, a candidate of DPT.[11]

On 3 November, Lotay Tshering formally announced his cabinet structure and Tandi was named as Foreign Minister for Bhutan.[2] On 7 November 2018, he was sworn in as Foreign Minister for Bhutan in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lotay Tshering.[12]

Honours

References

  1. ^ a b Ngawang. "Foreign Minister – Ministry of Foreign Affairs". Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  2. ^ a b c "Bhutan's Newly Elected Prime Minister Lotay Tshering Unveiled The 10 Cabinet Ministers On 3 November 2018". www.bhutantimes.com.
  3. ^ "HM confers Dakyen to Cabinet ministers, Speaker, and OL – KuenselOnline". www.kuenselonline.com.
  4. ^ a b c "Bhutan 2018 Elections". www.peldendrukpa.com.
  5. ^ "MMCH accords reception to its ex-student Bhutanese PM". Financial Express (Bangladesh). 14 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  6. ^ "DNT announces cabinet portfolios". Bhutan Times.
  7. ^ "Doctors into politics condemn BMHC's notification – Business Bhutan". www.businessbhutan.bt.
  8. ^ "DNT reveals 46 candidates - BBS". 1 June 2018.
  9. ^ "Meet the cabinet minister-elects of third democratically elected government". 2018-11-03.
  10. ^ "Eight Candidates join DNT - The Bhutanese".
  11. ^ "How DNT won Punakha?".
  12. ^ "PM Lotay Tshering's Cabinet inaugurated in Bhutan – United News of India". www.uniindia.com.
  13. ^ 115th National Day
Political offices
Preceded by Foreign Minister for Bhutan
2018–present 		Incumbent