Alumni stories

Portraits in quiet ambition.

The people behind the numbers — alumni whose work, lived between Bhutan and Australia, is shaping the country they came home to.

Tshering Yangzom

University of Melbourne · 2016

Tshering Yangzom

Health Policy Lead · Thimphu

Australia gave me the framework. Bhutan gives me the why.

Tshering returned home to architect Bhutan's first integrated mental-health policy — drawing on years of public-health research in Victoria.

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Karma Wangchuk

UNSW · 2019

Karma Wangchuk

Climate Engineer · Sydney

Our chapter feels like a second family across two hemispheres.

Karma's work on low-carbon hydro is co-developed with engineers in both Sydney and Punakha — a quiet bridge between two valleys.

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Dechen Pelden

ANU · 2014

Dechen Pelden

Founder, Druk Edutech · Paro

Every mentor I have today, I met through this network.

Dechen builds Dzongkha-first learning tools used by 60,000 Bhutanese students. Her first investor came from a BAAA fireside in Canberra.

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