Tenzin (Tendor) Dorjee is Director of Research and Advocacy at Tibet Action Institute. His work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Journal of Democracy, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion. He has provided expert briefings to various governmental and non-governmental agencies, including the United Nations, Freedom House, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and the Canadian Parliamentary Subcommittee on International Human Rights. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and his B.A. in international relations from Brown University. He is the author of The Tibetan Nonviolent Struggle: A Strategic and Historical Analysis.