The Foundation Board

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

At present, the foundation board comprises 10 members:

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