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| name = Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa
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| office = Representative of the [[Dalai Lama]] and the [[Central Tibetan Administration|Tibetan Government in Exile]] for [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]]
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| predecessor = Kelsang Gyaltsen
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'''Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa''' is an official of the [[Central Tibetan Administration|Tibetan Government in Exile]]. He is the Representative of the [[Dalai Lama]] and the Tibetan Government in Exile for [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]] and the head of the [[Tibet Bureau (Geneva)|Tibet Bureau in Geneva]].<ref name="tibetbureau">{{cite web |url= http://www.tibetoffice.ch/web/bureau/staff.htm |title= Mitarbeiter |author= |date= |publisher=[[Tibet Bureau (Geneva)|The Tibet Bureau in Geneva]] |accessdate=17 May 2011}}</ref> He was appointed as Representative on 1 April 2008, succeeding Kelsang Gyaltsen.<ref name="community">{{cite web |url= http://www.tibetswiss.ch/the-tibet-office.html |title= The Tibet Bureau in Geneva |author= |date= |publisher= Tibetan Community in Switzerland and Liechtenstein | archiveurl = | archivedate = |accessdate= 2011-05-17 | quote = }}</ref><ref name="phayul">{{cite web |url= http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=22787&t=0 |title= Dalai Lama's Geneva Representative Attends International Meet |author= |date= September 10, 2008 |publisher= Phayul | archiveurl = | archivedate = |accessdate= 2011-05-17 | quote = }}</ref> He has previously worked for the Tibetan exile government in [[India]] and [[London]]. He is a graduate of [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City|New York]], and was born in [[Nepal]] after his parents had escaped from Tibet in 1959, after the [[Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China]].

He is a board member of the [[Tibet Institute Rikon]],<ref name="Rikon">{{cite web |url= http://www.tibet-institut.ch/content/tir/en/foundation_board.html |title= The Foundation Board |author= |date= |publisher= [[Tibet Institute Rikon]] | archiveurl = | archivedate = |accessdate= 2011-05-17 | quote = }}</ref> and a founding signatory of the [[Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.praguedeclaration.org/ |title= Prague Declaration - Declaration Text |author= |date= 3 June 2008 |publisher=[[Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism]] |accessdate=28 January 2010}}</ref>

His deputy is Under-Secretary Dawa Gyatso.<ref name="tibetbureau" />

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