Lyonpho[4] Thakur Singh Powdyel[5] is a Bhutanese politician and educator of Nepali descent.
[5] He served as Minister of Education from 2008 to 2013, overseeing the Green Schools program as a part of the implementation of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan.
[6] According to Powdyel, the youth of Bhutan should be "embedded with GNH values and principles" such as caring for nature, the flourishing of Bhutanese culture, and "the elements of good citizenship and governance".
[7] Powdyel believes that this would make a "successful graduate" under GNH,[8] the criteria of which, according to the Ministry of Education, are a set of attributes "related to self, family, workplace, community and citizen".
[5] Powdyel has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, as well as the Maharishi Institute.