Kunzang Wangdi
Chief Election Commissioner, Bhutan
Focus: Reducing Divisive Effects of Competition, Elections
Topics: Voter Registration, Training
Keywords: codes of conduct, communications, election management body, election security, electronic voting, media relations, monitoring, recruitment, rural voter registration, training, vote counting, voter education, voter registration
Interviewer(s): Rohan Mukherjee
Country of Reform: Bhutan
Location: Election Commission of Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan
Date: Mon Nov 16 2009
Abstract
Full Profile
At the time of this interview, Kunzang Wangdi was chief election commissioner of Bhutan. In that capacity he set up and ran Bhutan’s first democratic elections. Prior to his appointment as commissioner in 2005, Wangdi served as auditor general of Bhutan’s Royal Audit Authority. He was also director of the Royal Institute of Management. Wangdi began working for Bhutan’s civil service in 1977. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from St. Stephens College in India and completed a master’s degree in public administration at Penn State.
