Professor Tashi Rabgey

Tashi Rabgey was the first Tibetan Rhodes Scholar. A former UC Literary and Athletic Society president, she completed law degrees at Oxford and Cambridge universities and earned a PhD at Harvard University. A research professor of International Affairs and director of the Tibet Governance Project at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, she was named a Public Intellectual Program fellow by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and is currently writing a book about the need to reframe the Sino-Tibetan dispute.  

Rabgey has spent much of the past 15 years working inside the region and has led the development of the TGAP Forum, a seven-year academic dialogue process on governance in Tibet with policy researchers of the Chinese State Council in Beijing, as well as Harvard, UQÀM and other global academic partners. With her sister, Losang Rabgey (BA 1993 UC), she is the co-founder of Machik, an organization that has supported the education and capacity building of thousands of young Tibetan women and men across Tibet.