Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa is a former official of the Tibetan Government in Exile.

He has previously worked for the Tibetan exile government in Dharamsala, India before travelling to USA in 1990 for his post graduate studies.

The Tibet Bureau in Geneva was responsible for Central and Eastern Europe, as well as for the United Nations in Geneva, while the Bureau du Tibet in Brussels was primarily responsible for the European Union and the European Parliament in Belgium.

He is a board member of the Gaden Phodrang Trust in India and the Gaden Phodrang Foundation of the Dalai Lama in Switzerland, as well as a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.

[1] Since April 2016, he has been based in Dharamsala, India, where he serves as one of the Secretaries to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.