The Foundation Board

The "Tibet Institute Rikon" foundation is headed by a volunteer foundation board.
At present, the foundation board comprises 12 members:
Dr. Karma Lobsang, President
(Lecturer Pedagogical College Berne and Centre of Competence in Mediation and Conflict Management, College of Berne)Dr. Werner Nater, Vice-President and Project Manager "Science meets Dharma"
(Physicist, former college teacher and project manager in development cooperation)Mrs Tashi Albertini
Prof. Dr. med. Peter E. Ballmer
(former chief physician und director of Kantonsspital Winterthur)Manuel Bauer
(Photographer)Thinlay Chukki
(Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama)Andrea Dorjee-Good
(Lawyer)Lama Tenzin Jottotshang
(Representative of the Monastic Community)Prof. Dr. Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
(Institute for the Science of Religion, University of Bern)Vera Moir-Boller
(Representative of the founding family Kuhn)Tsering Balok
(Representative of the Tibetan Community in Switzerland & Liechtenstein)Hans B. Stutz
(Architect ETH Zurich)
Honorary members:
- Mathilde Kuhn-Ziegler (1914-2001), Honorary presiden
(President and accountant 1970-1997) - Jacques Kuhn (1919-2016), Honorary president
(Co-founder of Tibet Institute Rikon) - Prof. Dr. Richard R. Ernst (1933-2021), Honorary member
(Professor em. ETH Zurich, Nobel Laureate) - Dr. Rudolf Högger, Honorary member
(Historian and Psychologist, Former Vice-Director of SDC)