{"id":3613,"date":"2020-11-02T07:54:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:58:14","slug":"tashi-phuntsok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/tashi-phuntsok\/","title":{"rendered":"Tashi Phuntsok"},"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-3740 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Moderator_-Tashi-Phuntsok-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Moderator_-Tashi-Phuntsok-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Moderator_-Tashi-Phuntsok.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Tashi Phuntsok<\/span><\/strong><b> <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for the EU and Western Europe, based in Brussels. He took office in 2016. As a teacher, social advocate and diplomat, he has dedicated nearly 40 years of his life in the service of the Tibetan community and served the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in various capacities. During his first office as the Director of the Africa &amp; Middle East Desk under the Department of Information and International Relations, CTA, he played a pivotal role in arranging His Holiness the Dalai Lama\u2019s maiden visit to South Africa and his meeting with President Nelson Mandela in 1996. Later he established the Office of Tibet in Pretoria in 1997 and served there until 2001 as the Representative. Mr Phuntshok\u2019s other notable diplomatic role includes the Representative for Office of Tibet in Brussels and Paris from 2001 to 2005. His other administrative roles were the Secretary in the Department of Information International Relations, Director of Tibetan Homes Foundation, Mussoorie, and Chief Representative of Southern Tibetan Settlements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr. Tashi Phuntsok is the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for the EU and Western Europe, based in Brussels. He took office in 2016. As a teacher, social advocate and diplomat, he has dedicated nearly 40 years of his life in the service of the Tibetan community and served the Central Tibetan Administration...","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers_2019","category-speakers_2020","category-speakers_2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","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=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}