The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) aka “the Tibetan Government-in-Exile” is in its 65th year of existence. It was established at a time starkly different from today. A position paper by Kelsang Aukatsang, President of the Asia Freedom Institute, makes a case for Tibetan democracy and governance in exile. Reimagining Tibetan Community, Democracy and Governance outlines key shifts and issues; recommends a new democracy and governance paradigm; calls for the adoption of the Swiss model of collective executive leadership, and offers a framework for ushering in CTA 2.0. An ancillary objective is to enhance and elevate the Tibetan discourse on strengthening the resilience of the Tibetan freedom movement, democracy and governance in exile.
Date: September 9, 2024
Time: 03:30 pm (Zurich). 07:00 pm (New Delhi). 9:30 am (New York)
Event Type: Live Podcast (YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn)
Moderator:
Sakina Batt
Host, Freedom Hour, AFI
Live Video Podcast Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsiaFreedomInstitute/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AsiaFreedomInstitute/streams
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asia-freedom-institute/
Biographies:
Kelsang D. Aukatsang
Kelsang Aukatsang is the Founding President of the Asia Freedom Institute and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. Kelsang has held various senior leadership positions in the Central Tibetan Administration including the Washington, DC representative for the Dalai Lama, Special Advisor to the President (Sikyong) of the Central Tibetan Administration, and the Chief Resilience Officer of the CTA. He has a Master’s in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, Medford, USA, and a Bachelor’s in English literature from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
Sakina Batt
Sakina Batt is a Producer and Director at Meeting Point, a leading audio-visual production house and buying agency in Nepal. She directs promotional videos, does voice overs, writes scripts and copywriting for the videos in Meeting Point. Sakina worked for Tibet TV at the Central Tibetan Administration in India for four years (2017-2021) where she served as a news presenter and an interview host. She also made short documentaries for the channel, wrote scripts, conducted research, edited videos and anchored the show In Conversation with Tibet TV. Sakina has a Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and a bachelors from Delhi University.
