Dr. Tenzin Desal is an anthropologist of Tibet and the Himalayas.

 He is currently the Senior Research Fellow of the Tibet Policy Institute. He edits the in-house annual English Journal. He is also the editor of a special issue of the TPI Journal, titled Foregrounding Tibet. He has written on issues related to center-periphery relations between Tibet and China. He is also an elected member to the board of advisors of the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists.