Dasho Karma Ura

Author, Historian, President of the Centre for Bhutan Studies and Gross National Happiness Research (Bhutan)

  1. Dasho Karma Ura was a student of St Stephen’s in the late 1970s and early 1980s reading
    Indian history; before he went to Oxford University on Magdalen College’s scholarship.
    His did his Ph D in Nagoya University, Japan.
  2. He worked for 12 years in the erstwhile Planning Commission of Bhutan before he moved
    to the Centre for Bhutan and Gross National Happiness Studies in 2008. He is its Executive
    President.
  3. He is currently a Fellow of The New Institute in Hamburg in Germany doing research on
    human flourishing in the 21st century. He is also currently member of several international
    boards including Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford; and Earth Trusteeship
    Working Group in Thailand.
  4. Among many books, the latest called The Unremembered Nation is a two-volume study of
    ordinary life in Bhutan before modernisation published by Oxford University Press.
  5. He is also a painter, with a piece of work in the British Museum collection. The Dochula
    monument in Thimphu also displays his works