{"id":3579,"date":"2020-11-02T06:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2023-10-26T12:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:28:35","slug":"dr-lobsang-sangay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/dr-lobsang-sangay\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Lobsang Sangay"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3727 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lobsang-Sangay-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lobsang-Sangay-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Lobsang-Sangay.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dr. Lobsang Sangay<\/strong> is the first democratically-elected President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) following the devolution of His Holiness the Dalai Lama\u2019s temporal role in 2011<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">is currently on a second presidential term post his 2016 win<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. He <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">has unveiled the Five-Fifty vision: Shaping Tibet\u2019s Political Future aimed at restoring freedom in Tibet and the return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Tibet in the 5-year term while simultaneously strategizing the Tibet movement for the next 50 years, if needed. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">He is<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> the first Tibetan to earn a Doctor of Juridical Science<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> and has <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">organized an unprecedented series of conferences between Chinese and Tibetan scholars, including a meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and 35 Chinese scholars. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">He<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> has received a citation award honouring the democratic institution of the CTA as envisioned by His Holiness the Dalai Lama by the National Endowment for Democracy, Takasu Award by the Takusu Foundation, the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse from the Historical Society of Trinity College, Rataan Samman by Hansraj College and Bharatiya Chatra Sansad<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is a legal scholar with expertise in international Human Rights law, democratic constitutionalism, and conflict resolution. He has given lectures, published in academic journals like the Journal of Democracy, East Asia and International Law, and consulted for media outlets globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Lobsang Sangay is the first democratically-elected President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) following the devolution of His Holiness the Dalai Lama\u2019s temporal role in 2011 and is currently on a second presidential term post his 2016 win. He has unveiled the Five-Fifty vision: Shaping Tibet\u2019s Political Future aimed at restoring freedom in Tibet...","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers_2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}