The Foundation Board

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

At present, the foundation board comprises 9 members:

Dr. Rudolf Högger
(President; Historian and Psychologist, Former Vice-Director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation)
Hans-Heinrich Kuhn
(Vice-President; Representative of the Founding Family)
PD Dr. Martin Brauen
(Cultural Anthropologist; Chief Curator at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York)
Prof. Dr. Richard R. Ernst
(Professor em. ETH Zurich, Nobel Laureate)
Pema Lamdark
(Representative of the Tibetan Community in Switzerland & Liechtenstein)
Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa
(Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama)
Lama Tenzin Jottotshang
(Representative of the Monastic Community)
M.A. Karma Lobsang
(Lecturer Pedagogical College Berne and Centre of Competence in Mediation and Conflict Management, College of Berne)
Dr. Kaspar Schiller
(Lawyer)