Kelsang Gyaltsen
Envoy of H. H. the Dalai Lama
Born 1951 in Kham, Tibet. In 1963 he was sent for education to Switzerland. He was trained in business and administration in Switzerland and worked as a cadre of a major bank in Switzerland until 1983. In 1983 he volunteered for one year at the Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India. In 1985 he was appointed as the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Office of Tibet in Switzerland. In 1992 he was transferred to the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala as a secretary to His Holiness. In 1999 he was transferred back to Europe as the Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Europe. He is also one of the two Envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama entrusted with the task of conducting the dialogue with the representatives of the Chinese government.