Harvard-trained Tibetan leader
The man elected as the new political leader of the Tibetan government in exile says he overcame voter doubts about his youth and relative inexperience in part due to his political studies at Harvard. Lobsang Sangay, a Harvard Law School graduate, won 55 percent of the vote in a runoff with two more experienced candidates, Tenzin Namgyal Tethong and Tashi Wangdi, in the final round of voting for the post of Kalon Tripa, or Tibetan prime minister. The results of the voting — which was held beginning in March among Tibetan exiles scattered over 30 countries— was announced in India on Wednesday (April 27). The election is particularly significant since the Dalai Lama, who has been both the political and religious leader of the Tibetan people in exile, has announced he will retire from political life. The Dalai Lama has led a Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, India, formed after he...