Centennial Lecture on Bhutan Development with Values
Last Updated on Tue Oct 10 18:12:04 MDT 2017
Originally published Fri Sep 22 16:43:14 MDT 2017
By lfmartinez6
UTEP Communications
Bruce W. Bunting, DVM, president of the Bhutan Foundation, will deliver a Centennial Lecture at 4 p.m. Oct. 11 titled “Bhutan: Development with Values.” Tshering Yangzom, director of programs and external relations at the Bhutan Foundation, will join him in a Q&A session. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Bunting is a member of the board and president of the Bhutan Foundation. He was formerly a managing director and vice president of the World Wildlife Fund. He first visited Bhutan in 1986 and has been a longtime adviser to the Bhutanese government on a variety of issues, including the establishment of Bhutan’s national park system; the Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation, the world’s first such trust fund; and the Bhutan Health Trust Fund. He has authored several articles, including “Bhutan, Kingdom in the Clouds” for National Geographic Magazine. He founded and chaired the Marine Aquarium Council and served on the boards of WWF Philippines, the Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation, and the Greater Himalaya Foundation. He also established WWF’s Center for Conservation Finance and helped leverage over $300 million for conservation programs around the world. He received a B.S. in zoology and a doctorate in veterinary medicine from Michigan State University, both with high honors.
Tshering Yangzom is the director of programs and external relations for the Bhutan Foundation in Washington, D.C. She has a B.A. in biology from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and a Master of Public Health from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has previously worked in the Histology Department at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Thimphu, Bhutan, and as a journalist at a national newspaper. At Westminster College, she was actively involved with the Missouri School for the Deaf and the NGO Reading is Fundamental (RIF). Yangzom spent four years in McLean, Virginia at the Madeira School where she also volunteered at local hospitals in the Washington, D.C. area and interned on Capitol Hill and with the Center for Teaching Peace. She currently volunteers for Camp Healthy Habits through a local NGO, Common Threads, in Washington, D.C.
The Centennial Lecture Series invites noteworthy speakers to the UTEP campus to share their perspectives on a broad range of contemporary issues that are likely to impact our society, culture and lives in the years ahead.