Lobsang Sangay is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and a senior visiting fellow in the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He was a democratically elected Sikyong (President) of the Tibetan government in exile and served two terms (2011–2021). He has written numerous op-eds in major newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek, and has appeared on many international news networks like the BBC and CNN. He was profiled by the New York Times, CNN (Asia), and other international news media. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse from Trinity College, Dublin (2014) and the Salisbury University Presidential Medal for Distinguished Community Leadership (2015). He has played an important role in the passage of the Tibetan Policy and Support Act 2020 by the US government.