Bhutan through an Archaeology Lens

Speaker : Kuenga Wangmo
Kuenga Wangmo is Bhutan’s first archaeologist. She has worked on archaeological sites in Bhutan, India, and the United States. She was a member of a Policy Think Tank under His Majesty’s Secretariat and advises the Centre for Historical and Archaeological Studies at the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB). She sits on the Research and Innovation Committee of the RUB and is a member of the Board of Directors at VAST. Kuenga is a fellow at the Bhutan Ecological Society. She currently researches and teaches at the Centre for Himalayan Environment and Development Studies, SFS Bhutan. Kuenga was a post-doc research fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, UCL, in London. She is a National Geographic Explorer. She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and post-graduate degrees from Cambridge University and The Courtauld Institute of Art.

Host : Mr. Gerald Daly
Gerald Daly is the Resident Coordinator of the UN in Bhutan . Prior to his appointment as RC for Bhutan, he served as Policy Adviser and Team Leader of Programme, Joint Funding and Business Operations in the UN Development Group. His focus areas included ensuring cross-UN ownership and development of Delivering as One at both strategic and operational levels along with funding/implementation of integrated policy work.