Tashi Wangmo

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - 1997

Tashi WangmoBhutan’s King, His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgel Wangchuck, has appointed UOW Mechanical Engineering graduate Tashi Wangmo to the first-ever Bhutanese National Council.

Tashi, who graduated from UOW in 1997 and now works for Bhutan’s Ministry of Works and Human Settlement, is one of five King’s appointees on the 25-member council. The other 20 members were elected in December and January as part of Himalayan nation’s move to a constitutional monarchy and democracy.

Associate Professor Paul Cooper said Tashi was one of the first engineering students to come to UOW from Bhutan. Professor Cooper has kept in touch with Tashi over the years and wrote congratulating her on behalf of the Faculty of Engineering at UOW.

Tashi replied with some inspirational feedback on her time at UOW. This is part of what she said: “It is not my success alone, it is also the success of all my lecturers and Faculty members at the University of Wollongong.

“It is that four and half years of study at UOW and my interaction with Australian society that has provided me with the strong foundation necessary to build my way up to where I am now.

“There was never a person in the Mechanical Engineering Department who did not give me attention. Today, I feel proud to be standing out as one of the five eminent appointees of His Majesty the King to the National Council, not as an individual but as the product of the UOW.”

Last reviewed: 23 December, 2008