H.E. Ms. Doma Tshering
Permanent Representative of Bhutan to the UN, and co-facilitator of political declaration of the midterm review of the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action (VPoA) for LLDCs
H.E. MS. DOMA TSHERING AMBASSADOR AND PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BHUTAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS
Since presenting credentials to the Secretary General of the United Nations on 13th September 2017, Ms. Tshering serves as Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations in New York. She is concurrently accredited as Bhutan’s Ambassador to Canada, and to Brazil. During her career spanning over 25 years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has served in various posts at the Ministry and at Bhutan’s diplomatic missions in New York and Geneva. She has served as Director of the Multilateral Department, Chief of the Policy Planning Division, and Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permanent Mission of Bhutan to the United Nations in Geneva, among other roles. She has represented the Royal Government at a number of UN and other intergovernmental fora on matters related to climate change, sustainable development, least developed and land locked developing states, human rights, humanitarian issues, international peace and security. Ms. Tshering holds a bachelor’s degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She obtained her post-graduate degree from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris. She was born in 1968.