Jai Bir Rai () is a

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

ese politician who has been Minister for Education since November 2018. He has been a member of the

National Assembly of Bhutan The National Assembly is the elected lower house of Bhutan's bicameral Parliament which also comprises the Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) and the National Council. It is the more powerful house. Current National Assembly The current National A ...

, since October 2018.

Early life and education

Rai was born on . He graduated from the Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands, and received a degree of

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

(Research program, specialized in Accounting and Finance).

Professional career

Before joining politics in 2013, he served as a CEO, chief consultant, trainer and was also the finance officer of the

Royal University of Bhutan The Royal University of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་; Wylie:'' 'brug rgyal-'dzin gtsug-lag-slob-sde''), founded on June 2, 2003, by a royal decree, is the n ...

, JDWNRH and the

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Political career

Rai is a member of

Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa ( dz, འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie: ''’brug nyam-rub tshogs-pa''; ), formerly the Social Democratic Party, is one of the five registered political parties in Bhutan. It was regist ...

(DNT). He was elected to the

in the

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for the Phuentsholing constituency. He received 5,586 votes and defeated Tashi, a candidate of

Druk Phuensum Tshogpa Druk Phuensum Tshogpa ( dz, འབྲུག་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie:'' 'brug phun-sum tshog-pa''; translation: Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party; abbr. DPT) is one of the major political parties in Bhutan ...

. On 3 November,

Lotay Tshering Lotay Tshering ( dz, བློ་གྲོས་ཚེ་རིང་; born 10 May 1969) is a Bhutanese politician and surgeon who is the current Prime Minister of Bhutan, in office since 7 November 2018. He has also been the president of Druk ...

formally announced his cabinet structure and Rai was named as Minister for Education. On 7 November 2018, he was sworn in as Minister for Education in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lotay Tshering.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rai, Jai Bir Living people Bhutanese politicians 1973 births Bhutanese MNAs 2018–2023 Lotay Tshering ministry Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa politicians Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa MNAs Bhutanese people of Nepalese descent Rai people