Secretary Lobsang Choedak Assumes Charge as New Secretary of the Election Commission

Dharamshala: Secretary Lobsang Choedak officially assumed charge as the new Secretary of the Election Commission, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on 18 December 2024.

Earlier this morning on 13 January 2025, Secretary Lobsang Choedak successfully concluded handing and taking-over ceremony with Secretary Tenzin Legdup, the then Secretary of the Election Commission and incumbent Secretary of the Public Service Commission, in the presence of Election Commissioner Lobsang Yeshi and Public Service Commissioner Karma Yeshi.

Following the ceremony, the Election Commissioner and Public Service Commissioner, along with staff members from the CTA’s two autonomous bodies, offered ceremonial white scarves and congratulated the new Election Commission Secretary.

Brief Bio:

Secretary Lobsang Choedak joined the Central Tibetan Administration on 11 February 2003 as Under Secretary at the Tibetan Settlement Office in Dharamshala, where he served as secretary of both the Settlement Office and the Indo-Tibetan Friendship Association. After completing his probation period, he was made a permanent staff member on 30 August 2003, continuing in the same role.

On 17 February 2006, he was transferred to the Paonta Cholsum Tibetan Settlement Office and then to the Department of Information and International Relations on 20 January 2007.

At the Department of Information and International Relations, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary on 21 January 2009 and later to Joint Secretary on 9 September 2013. On 1 January 2017, he was transferred to the Office of Tibet in Japan (the Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibet House).

On 17 August 2020, he was promoted to Additional Secretary and transferred to the Kashag (Cabinet) Secretariat before being appointed as the Secretary of the Election Commission on 2 December 2024.

-Report filed by Public Service Commission, CTA