The Foundation Board

The "Tibet Institute Rikon" foundation is headed by a volunteer foundation board.

At present, the foundation board comprises 11 members:

Dr. Rudolf Högger
(President; Historian and Psychologist, Former Vice-Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation)
Frank Bodin
(Chairman & CEO Euro RSCG Group Switzerland)
PD Dr. Martin Brauen
(Cultural Anthropologist; Chief Curator at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York)
Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa
(Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama)
Lhakpa Tsering Dhakyel
(Representative of the Tibetan Community in Switzerland & Liechtenstein)
Prof. Dr. Richard R. Ernst
(Professor em. ETH Zurich, Nobel Laureate)
Lobsang Gangshontsang
(Director at the Swiss Rock Asset Management Ltd., Zurich)
Lama Tenzin Jottotshang
(Representative of the Monastic Community)
PhD Karma Lobsang
(Lecturer Pedagogical College Berne and Centre of Competence in Mediation and Conflict Management, College of Berne)
Dr. Kaspar Schiller
(Lawyer)