Tshering Tobgay Biography

Tshering Tobgay is a Bhutanese politician and the Prime Minister of Bhutan since July 27, 2013. He is the leader and one of the founders of the ‘People’s Democratic Party’ who effectively set up the Party as the first registered political party of Bhutan. For five years from March 2008 to April 2013, he remained the ‘Leader of the Opposition’ in the ‘National Assembly’, the first democratically elected parliament of Bhutan. He also served as President of the ‘People’s Democratic Party’. He is alumni of the ‘Harvard University and also the ‘University of Pittsburgh’. Before joining politics, he served as a civil servant in the ‘Department of Education’ in its ‘Technical and Vocational Education Section’. He set up the ‘National Technical Training Authority’ in 1998 and remained its head. He was the director of the ‘Ministry of Labour and Human Resources’ for around four years since 2003. His Majesty, the King conferred him with the ‘Lungmar Scarf’, a lifetime scarf, on December 17, 2014, at the 107th National Day celebration. He thus became the first recipient of the scarf since its re-institution.