Wangdi Norbu 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 served as

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in the

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from July 2003 to July 2007, and from April 2008 to May 2013. He was the chairman of

Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan The Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan ( dz, བྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཞུང་དངུལ་ལས་དབང་འཛིན་) is the central bank of Bhutan and is a member of the Asian Clearing Union. It is also the minting aut ...

from 2003 to 2007 and from 2008 to 2010.https://www.rma.org.bt/RMA%20Publication/Annual%20Report/annual%20report%202008-2009.pdf He graduated from the

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with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1976. He has been the

Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party 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. It was ...

(DPT) member of the National Assembly of Bhutan for the constituency of Bartsham Shongphu since the country's first National Assembly election in 2008. He retained the same seat at the 2013 National Assembly election.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Western Australia alumni Bhutanese MNAs 2013–2018 21st-century Bhutanese politicians Druk Phuensum Tshogpa politicians Finance ministers of Bhutan Government ministers of Bhutan Bhutanese politicians Place of birth missing (living people) Bhutanese MNAs 2008–2013 Druk Phuensum Tshogpa MNAs {{Bhutan-politician-stub