Kinga Tshering (born 20 December 1966) is a Bhutanese businessman and politician. He served in the public sector for 23 years in Bhutan, most recently as a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly. He has experience in legislation, and organization building with the formation of Bhutan Power Corporation (BPC), Bhutan Electricity Authority (BEA) and Druk Holding and Investments (DHI). He also has experience in the financial sector, banking, energy and infrastructure projects in the capacity of a CEO and a board member. He led corporate restructuring, change management, strategy, and social enterprises. He has stated as a goal making a profound impact and transformative change on the society through activism in democracy, innovation in governance, and integration of the HAPPINESS index into mainstream economic theory and development works in emerging nations. He was a

Fulbright Fellow The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...

while pursuing his BSc in engineering at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...

, and a Dispute Resolution Fellow at the Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution while pursuing his MBA at

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. In 2017, he completed his Ford Foundation Mason Fellowship in the Mid Career Masters in Public Administration program at the

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. He spent 2018 as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's

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Living people Bhutanese MNAs 2013–2018 21st-century Bhutanese politicians 1966 births University of Kansas alumni Pepperdine University alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni Bhutanese chief executives Druk Phuensum Tshogpa MNAs {{Bhutan-politician-stub