Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa

Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa (, born 7 September 1943 in Lhasa) is a Tibetan banker, activist, writer and poet, one of the first to write in English, He was educated in Tibet which he left in 1950, then in India at St. Joseph's College in Darjeeling and the United States.

He works for the Tibetan government in exile in India as CEO of the Tibetan Industrial Rehabilitation Society founded in October 1965 by the Government of India, the Tibetan exile government and foreign aid agencies, and rehabilitates 7000 Tibetan refugees in agribusiness camps in Himachal Pradesh.

He moved to Cranford, New Jersey, in the United States where he is a naturalized US citizen and lives with his American wife. There he became an international banker for the Republic National Bank of New York where he was assistant vice president based in Hong Kong before being appointed Senior Vice President in 1985, and then President at Corpus Christi, Texas until he was diagnosed with a stomach cancer in 1993. He struggles and regain health through meditation and Western medicine. According to his doctors, any trace of cancer was gone. However, he was struck again by a stroke in 1999.

Despite these setbacks, he became president of the Tibetan Association of Washington and founded the festival TibetFest in Seattle in the state of Washington. at Pagès Editors (University of Lleida), a Spanish publishing house, then in English in 2003.

In 2007, he gets a prize of Saint Joseph's College in Darjeeling.

He has a son, Wangchuk D. Shakabpa, and a daughter, Pema Yudon Shakabpa, and lives with his wife, Margaret Hennessy Shakabpa, in California.

Publications Recollections of a Tibetan, avant-propos du Dalaï Lama, PublishAmerica, 2003, Winds of Change: An Autobiography of a Tibetan, Paljor Publications, 2005 Odds and Ends, 2006 Voice of Tibet, préface Robert Barnett, Paljor Publications, 2006, Dead People Talking, Paljor Publications, 2008 I Imagine, 2009 Being Tibetan 2010 Voices of the Voiceless, 2011