Lyonpo Dr. Tandi Dorji | |
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རྟ་མགྲིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་ | |
Foreign Minister for Bhutan | |
Assumed office 7 November 2018 | |
Prime Minister | Lotay Tshering |
Preceded by | Damcho Dorji |
Member of the National Assembly of Bhutan | |
Assumed office 31 October 2018 | |
Preceded by | Chimi Dorji |
Constituency | Lingmukha-Toedwang |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] | September 2, 1968
Political party | Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa |
Alma mater | University of Dhaka University of Sydney University of Canberra |
Tandi Dorji (Dzongkha: རྟ་མགྲིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie : Rta mgrin rdo rje; born 2 September 1968)[1] is a Bhutanese politician who has been Foreign Minister for Bhutan since November 2018.[2][3] He has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan, since October 2018.
He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from Mymensingh Medical College under the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.[4][5] He undertook his residency in Paediatrics from Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) in Pune India. He completed his Master of International Public Health from University of Sydney, Australia[6] and Master of Business Administration from University of Canberra, Australia.[4]
Before entering politics, he was a pediatrician,[7][8] public health researcher and a technical advisor.[9]
Dorji is a founding member and former president of the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa.[4] He participated in the 2008 and 2013 elections.[10] He was elected to the National Assembly of Bhutan in the 2018 elections for the Lingmukha Toedwang constituency.[2] He received 3,154 votes and defeated Sonam Wangyel Wang, a candidate of DPT.[11]
On 3 November, Lotay Tshering formally announced his cabinet structure and Tandi was named as Foreign Minister for Bhutan.[2] On 7 November 2018, he was sworn in as Foreign Minister for Bhutan in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lotay Tshering.[12]