Mr. Ogyen Kyab was born in the Amdo Pari region of Tibet, where he completed his education up to Class VII. In 1997, he arrived in India as a refugee and continued his schooling at TCV Suja up to Class IX, and later at TCV Gopalpur up to Class XII. Throughout his school years, he demonstrated exceptional academic excellence, consistently ranking first in all his examinations.

Notably, in the All India Secondary School Examination (Class X), he ranked first in Science across all Tibetan schools. In his All India Senior School Certificate Examination (Class XII), he scored the highest nationwide among all Tibetan schools, setting a record for the highest academic achievement in the history of the Tibetan exile community and receiving the prestigious Gaden Phodrang Student Merit Award.

In 2003, driven by a desire to raise political awareness about Tibet in his isolated hometown of Pari near the border, he gathered numerous political documents from the Central Tibetan Administration’s Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) and the Department of Security’s Tibet Research Center. He attempted to journey back into Tibet on foot from Nepal. However, he was arrested by Chinese authorities near the Dram border. He was detained at Dram, Nyalam, and Shigatse prisons, where he was subjected to relentless interrogation and severe beatings. After more than three months in detention, he staged a 9-day hunger strike, forcing authorities to rush him to an emergency hospital, after which he was critically released and managed to escape back to India.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University in 2008, and obtained his Master’s degree from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) while working concurrently in 2013.

During the 2008 Tibetan unrest (the Earth Rat Year protests), he designed and led numerous non-violent protests and awareness campaigns on his college campus. Since 2008, he has worked extensively in major international private corporations and commercial firms.

In 2016, he joined the Tibet Corps professional volunteer program to serve within the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile’s secretariat. During this tenure, he translated key documents into English, including the Charter of Tibetans in exile and materials regarding the Tibetan self-immolation protests.

Currently, he is serving as a Member of the 18^th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile from Domey province.