Ugyen Tshering

Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering (1954 – 29 January 2024)[1] was a Bhutanese politician who served as minister for foreign affairs between 2008 and 2013.

[2] He served as minister for labor and human resources before resigning in mid-2007, along with six other ministers, in order to enter politics and stand in the 2008 general election.

[2] Ugyen Tshering was born in August 1954 in a historically significant family that had served the monarch of Bhutan for generations.

He studied at Saint Joseph's School, North Point, in Darjeeling.

[1] He later studied social sciences and economics at University of California, Berkeley, (1974–1978) as a Fulbright scholar.