The Loden Foundation - Who We Are in the UK

Who We Are in the UK

Anne Tardy
Originally from France, Anne has founded and ran a museum for children in Paris for 18 years. She is an author of numerous books for children and is now studying Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan language. She is training in translation from Tibetan into French. She is travelling extensively in the Himalayan regions. She lives in London with Gérard and they have a family of three children and two grand children.

Alexandra von Eldik
Alexi graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Chinese Studies, with specific focus on Chinese culture and society. Graduate work followed at SOAS and then Oxford, where she completed an MPhil in Social Anthropology. Alexi is currently studying organisational psychology, while also working for a business consultancy in London.

Dawa Dem
Dawa Dem has worked with various organisation such as SNV, UNICEF, Asian Development Bank, Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Currently she is working for The Resource Alliance in UK as their program officer overseeing the program and consulting projects with the main focus on capacity building of the NGOs across the world on resources mobilization and fundraising. She has a post graduate degree in Development Studies.

Dorji Wangchuk

Dorji is from eastern Bhutan and has worked for the Royal Government of Bhutan before he came to do a Master in Business Administration at the Judge School of Business, Cambridge. Dorji lives in Edinburgh and works for Standard Life.

Gérard Tardy
Gérard is a well known European venture capitalist with 30 years of experience. He was the founder and manager in Paris of two major private equity firms, Cititcorp Venture Capital and Schroder Ventures. In 1999, he founded his own company, Sitka Limited, in London which invested in young companies in healthcare services and industries. Gérard is board member of several companies in Europe and in Singapore. He lives in London with Anne and they have a family of three children and two grand children.

Isabelle Onians
Isabelle studied Sanskrit and Tibetan in Kathmandu and a variety of European cities. Between school and university she started in Kathmandu while still a teenager as a teacher in the school which Thrangu Rinpoche had recently founded for children of the Himalayas as well as to enable his novice monks to have a secular education in addition to their monastic one: http://www.himalayanchildren.org/. Since finally finishing her own years as a student Isabelle has been publishing Sanskrit literature in bilingual facing-page editions: http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org/.

OTHER MEMBERS

Thinley Delma, Yeone Wei-Chih Moser, Edward Davy, Anthony Aris, Elizabeth Chatwin, William Douglas, Colin Franklin, Richard Whitecross, Sanya Smith, Sarah Norman.

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