Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, China & the Future of Tibet

Lobsang Sangay serves as a lecturer on law and as a senior visiting fellow at Harvard Law School. He previously completed two terms (2011–2021) as the democratically elected Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration. He earned his BA and LLB from Delhi University, followed by an LLN and an SJD (2004) from Harvard Law School. Dr. Sangay has written extensively on global affairs and democracy for leading international publications, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, and has appeared on major global networks such as the BBC and CNN. His leadership and work have also been profiled by The New York Times, CNN (Asia), and other international outlets.

Dr. Sangay has received several distinguished honors, including the gold medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse from the College Historical Society (CHS), Trinity College Dublin (2014), and the Salisbury University Presidential Medal for Distinguished Community Leadership (2015). He has addressed parliaments and visited major capitals around the world, and played an instrumental role in the passage of the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 in the United States. In 2006, he was named one of Asia Society’s 24 Young Leaders of Asia. He is currently writing a book on Democracy in Exile and co-editing a volume on The Geopolitics of Reincarnation and the Institution of the Dalai Lama.